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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 7 6 7 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ALLEN, Walter. Novelist and Literary Critic. Author of six novels (the most recent being All in a Lifetime, 1959); several critical works, including Arnold Bennett, 1948; Reading a Novel, 1949 (revised, 1956); Joyce Cary, 1953 (revised, 1971); The English Novel, 1954; Six Great Novelists, 1955; The Novel Today, 1955 (revised, 1966); George Eliot, 1964; and The Modern Novel in Britain and the United States, 1964; and of travel books, social history, and books for children. Editor of Writers on Writing, 1948, and of The Roaring Queen by Wyndham Lewis, 1973. Has taught at several universities in Britain, the United States, and Canada, and been an editor of the New Statesman. Essays: Richard Hughes; Ring Lardner; Dorothy Richardson; H. G. Wells. ANDERSON, David D. Professor of American Thought and Language, Michigan State University, East Lansing; Editor of University College Quarterly and Midamerica. Author of Louis Bromfield, 1964; Critical Studies in American Literature, 1964; Sherwood Anderson, 1967; Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio," 1967; Brand Whitlock, 1968; Abraham Lincoln, 1970; Robert Ingersoll, 1972; Woodrow Wilson, 1975. Editor or Co-Editor of The Black Experience, 1969; The Literary Works of Lincoln, 1970; The Dark and Tangled Path, 1971 ; Sunshine and Smoke, 1971. Essay: Louis Bromfield. ANGLE, James. Assistant Professor of English, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti. Author of verse and fiction in periodicals, and of an article on Edward Lewis Wallant in Kansas Quarterly, Fall 1975. Essay: Edward Lewis Wallant. ASHLEY, Leonard R.N. Professor of English, Brooklyn College, City University of New York. Author of Colley Cibber, 1965; 19th-Century British Drama, 1967; Authorship and Evidence: A Study of Attribution and the Renaissance Drama, 1968; History of the Short Story, 1968; George Peele: The Man and His Work, 1970. Editor of the Enriched Classics series, several anthologies of fiction and drama, and a number of facsimile editions. Essays: Maurice Baring; Ludwig Bemelmans; G. K. Chesterton. BARNES, John. Chairman of the Department of English, LaTrobe University, Bundoora, Australia. Author of articles on Peter Cowan, Hal Porter, and Patrick White. Essays: Vance Palmer; Randolph Stow. BENKOVITZ, Miriam J. Professor of English, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York. Author of Ronald Firbank: A Bibliography, 1963 (and supplement), and Firbank: A Biography, 1969. Editor of Edwy and Elgiva, by Fanny Burney, and A Passionate Prodigality, 1975. Essays: Ronald Firbank; Frederick Rolfe. BERGONZI, Gabriel. Free-lance Writer and Lecturer. Essay: Ada Leverson. BISIGNANO, Dominic J. Associate Professor of English, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. Essays: Stella Benson; Sylvia Townsend Warner. BLOOM, Lynn Z. Associate Professor of English, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Author of Doctor Spack: Biography of a Conservative Radical, 1972; The New Assertive Woman (with K. Coburn and J. Pearlman), 1975; Strategies for Composition, 1979; and of articles, reviews, and poetry in periodicals. Editor, with others, of Bear, Man, and God: Approaches to Faulkner's The Bear, 1964 (revised, 1971), and Symposium, 1969. Essay: Dorothy Parker. 768 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS BWTNER, Joseph. Professor of English, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Author of The Political Novel, 1955; The Fiction of J. D. Salinger (with F. L. Gwynn), 1959; The Modern American Political Novel, 190D-1960, 1966; Faulkner: A Biography, 2 vols., 1974. Editor of Faulkner in the University (with F. L. Gwynn), 1959, and Faulkner's Library: A Catalogue, 1964. Essay: William Faulkner. BODE, Walter. Editor in the Chemistry Department, University of California, Berkeley; Assistant Editor of San Francisco Theatre Magazine, and free-lance theatre and film critic. Essays: Roark Bradford; S. J. Perelman. BOLL, Theophllus E. M. Emeritus Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Research Consultant, English Literature in Transition. Author of The Works of Edwin Pugh: A Chapter in the Novel of Humble London Life, 1934, Miss May Sinclair, Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction, 197 3, and an essay on Stephen Hudson in Richard, Myrtle and I, edited by Violet Schiff, 1962. Essay: May Sinclair. BOTTRALL, Ronald. Poet and Travel Writer. Has been a teacher and a member of the British Council or U.N. staffs in Finland, Singapore, Italy, Sweden, Brazil, Greece, and Japan. Author of several books of verse, the most recent being Poems 1955-1973, 1974, and of Rome, 1968. Co-Editor of works by T. S. Eliot and of verse anthologies. Essay: L. H. Myers. BRATTON, J. S. Lecturer in English, Bedford College, University of London. Author of The Victorian Popular Ballad, 1975. Essay: T. H. White. BRA YBROOKE, Neville. Writer and Editor; contributor to The Times, T.L.S., Guardian, Saturday Review, and Sunday Telegraph. Editor of the quarterly The Wind and the Rain, 1941-51. Author of This Is London, 1953; London Green, 1959; London, 1961; the novel The Idler, 1961; the play The Delicate Investigation, 1969. Editor ofT. S. Eliot: A Symposium. 1958; A Partridge in a Pear Tree: A Celebration for Christmas, 1960; Pilgrim ofthe Future: A Teilhard de Chardin Symposium, 1966; The Letters of J. R. Ackerley, 1975. Essays: Djuna Barnes; William Plomer; B. Traven. BROER, Lawrence R. Associate Professor of English, University of South Florida, Tampa. Author of Hemingway's Spanish Tragedy, 197 3, and of many essays and reviews in journals. Editor of Counter Currents, 197 3, and The Great Escape of the '20's, I 977, and Co-Editor of The First Time: Initial Sexual Experience in Fiction, 1974. Essays: Nancy Mitford; Gore Vidal. BROWN, Ashley. Professor of English, University of South Carolina, Columbia; contributor to Sewanee Review, Shenandoah, Southern Review, Spectator, and other periodicals. Editor of The Achievement of Wallace Stevens (with R. S. Haller), 1962, Modes of Literature (with John L. Kimmey), 1968, and Satire: An Anthology (with Kimmey), 1977. Essay: Andrew Lytle. BROWN, lloyd W. Member of the Department of Comparative Literature, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Editor of The Black Writer in Africa and the Americas, I 97 3. Essay : Roger Mais. BROWN, Mary. Lecturer in English Studies, New University of Ulster, Coleraine. Essay: Ivy Compton-Burnett. BUCCO, Martin. Professor of English, Colorado State University, Fort Collins. Former Assistant Editor, Western American Literature. Author of The Voluntary Tongue (verse), 1957, Frank Waters, 1969, Wilbur Daniel Steele, 1972, and of verse, fiction, and criticism in NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 769 Colorado State Review, Occident, Studies in the Novel, and other periodicals. Essay: Wilbur Daniel Steele. CAMPBELL, Ian. Lecturer in English Literature, University of Edinburgh. Author of Thomas Carlyle, 1974, and of articles on Scottish literature since 1750. Associate Editor of the Duke-Edinburgh edition of Carlyle Letters, and editor of Carlyle's Reminiscences and Selected Essays. Essay: John Buchan. CARPENTER, Frederic I. Author of Emerson and Asia, 1930; Emerson Handbook, 1953; American Literature and the Dream, 1955; Robinson Jeffers, 1962; Eugene O'Neill, 1964; Laurens van der Post, 1969. Has taught at the University of Chicago, Harvard University, and the University of California, Berkeley. Essay: Conrad Richter. COCKSHUT, A. 0. J. G. M. Young Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Oxford University. Author of Anthony Trol/ope: A Critical Study, 1955; Anglican Attitudes, 1959; The Imagination of Charles Dickens, 1961 ; The Unbelievers: English Agnostic Thought, 184o-90, 1964; The Achievement of Walter Scott, 1969; Truth to Life, 1974. Essays: Elizabeth Bowen; Angus Wilson. COHN, Ruby. Professor of Comparative Drama, University of California, Davis; Editor of Modern Drama, and Associate Editor of Educational Theatre Journal. Author of Samuel Beckett: The Comic Gamut, 1962; Currents in Contemporary Drama, 1969; Edward Albee, 1970; Dialogue in American Drama, 1971; Back to Beckett, 1973; Modern Shakespeare OffShoots, 1976. Essay: Samuel Beckett. COLMER, John. Professor of English, University of Adelaide, Australia; General Editor of Studies in Australian Culture. Author of Coleridge: Critic of Society, 1959; Approaches to the Novel, 1967; E. M. Forster: "A Passage to India," 1967; Forster: The Personal Voice, 1975; Patrick White: "Riders in the Chariot," 1977; Coleridge to "Catch-22": Images of Society, 1978. Essays: E. M. Forster; Joseph Heller. COPLAND, R. A. Former Member of the Department of English, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. Essays: James Courage; Denton Welch. CORCORAN, Nell. Member of the Department of English, University of Sheffield. Essay: Conrad Aiken. COX, Martha Heasley. Professor of English and Director of the Steinbeck Research Center, San Jose State University, California. Author of Maxwell Anderson Bibliography, 1958; A Reading Approach to College Writing, 1959 (and later editions); Writing: Form, Process, Purpose, 1962; Image and Value: An Invitation to Literature, 1966; Nelson Algren (with Wayne Chatterton), 1975; and articles on Algren, Anderson, and John Steinbeck. Editor of Classic American Short Stories, 1969; Guest Editor of Steinbeck Quarterly, Summer 1971, and San Jose Studies, November 197 5. Essay: Nelson Algren. CRAIG, Patricia. Free-lance writer. Author of You're a Brick, Angela: A New Look at Girls' Fiction from 1839 to 1975, 1976, and Women and Children First: Aspects of