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  • Contributors

T. Alan Broughton (1936–2013) was Corse professor of English, emeritus, at the University of Vermont. He was also a Guggenheim fellow and earned an nea award. Publishing novels, short stories, poetry (seven volumes), and essays, Broughton was perhaps best known for his poetry, which was honored in 2008 with a Tate prize from the SR.

Fred Chappell, a man of letters who has written for this magazine for a half century, is retired from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His many works include short stories, fiction, poetry, and criticism. He earned an Aiken Taylor prize from this magazine and for some time was poet laureate of the state of North Carolina.

John J. Clayton is professor of English, emeritus, at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has published four novels and three books of stories.

Gavin Cologne-Brookes has published critical studies on William Styron and Joyce Carol Oates as well as a critical memoir entitled Rereading William Styron. He is a professor of American literature at Bath Spa University in Wiltshire and is also a painter.

Ernest J. Finney is completing a series of stories following the characters who appear in his “The Wrecker (summer 2013),” which has been chosen for the Best American Mystery Stories, 2014.

Brendan Galvin’s seventeenth collection of poetry, The Air’s Accomplices, will be published by the lsu Press in the spring of 2015. He earned an Aiken Taylor award for his poetry in 2006.

Joan Givner has written biographies of Katherine Anne Porter and Mazo de la Roche, two novels, and several collections of short stories.

Hugh Gaston Hall is professor emeritus at the University of Warwick. In addition to the eight volumes in his Richmond House Verse series, he has written, translated, edited (or coedited) sixteen books of early-modern French literature.

David Heddendorf, a contributor to these pages since 2008, also writes for the Southern Review.

Len Krisak’s most recent books are Afterimage: Poems and The Erotic Poems of Ovid: A Translation. In addition to earning the Robert Penn Warren and the Robert Frost prizes, he is also a four-time champion on Jeopardy.

Robert Lacy is a frequent contributor of essays and reviews to the Sewanee Review. He and his wife, Susan, live on Medicine Lake in Minnesota.

Susan McCallum-Smith, a new contributor, is the author of Slipping the Moorings, a collection of stories. She has published essays and reviews in agni, the Southern Review, the Gettysburg Review, and the Los Angeles Review of Books and has been awarded a fellowship from the nea.

Jeffrey Meyers published a memoir about J. F. Powers in Privileged Moments (2000). His Remembering Iris Murdoch was released last year, and his Thomas Mann’s Artist-Heroes was published in February of this year.

Merritt Moseley chairs the literature department at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. He has been reporting on the Man Booker prizes for this quarterly since 1993.

Michael Mott was the assistant editor of the famous Proust number of the Adams International Review for 1957. He would like to thank Avery Hicks and other members of the staff of the Williamsburg Regional Library for their help in making the audiobooks available for this essay.

Kent Nelson is the winner of the 2014 Drue Heinz Literature Prize for his collection The Spirit Bird, which includes two stories first published in the Sewanee Review, for which he has written regularly since 1974.

Nancy Huddleston Packer has taught writing at Stanford University for many years. Her latest collection (Old Ladies, 2012) contains three stories first published in these pages.

Sanford Pinsker is an emeritus professor of humanities at Franklin and Marshall College and continues to read and write about American literature for this and other periodicals. [End Page xlvii]

Donald Pizer is Pierce Butler professor of English, emeritus, at Tulane University. He has published widely on late nineteenth- and twentieth-century American naturalism.

Gladys Swan’s quintet of novels, beginning with Carnival for the Gods, is being published by Kiwai Media in Paris.

James L. W. West iii has just published a digital edition of Trimalchio, an early version of The Great Gatsby.

Edwin M. Yoder...

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