Suzanne Marrs is professor of English at Millsaps College. She is author of Eudora Welty: A Biography and One Writer's Imagination: The Fiction of Eudora Welty, and she is a recipient of the Phoenix Award ...

Steven Powell is an independent scholar and cofounder and coeditor of the crime fiction studies website The Venetian Vase. He is editor 100 American Crime Writers.

Ken Prouty is associate professor of musicology and jazz studies at Michigan State University, where he teaches courses in jazz history, popular music, and American music. His first book, Knowing Jazz: ...

One of the most eclectic and distinctive writers currently working in comics, Grant Morrison (b. 1960) brings the auteurist sensibility of alternative comics and graphic novels to the popular genres—superhero, ...

James Cameron (b. 1954) is lauded as one of the most successful and innovative filmmakers of the last thirty years. His films often break records, both in their massive budgets and in their box-office ...

Florida is blessed with a semitropical climate, beautiful inland areas, and over a thousand miles of warm seas and sandy beaches. And Floridians are every bit as colorful and diverse as the tropical foliage. ...

British comics writer Alan Moore (b. 1953) has a reputation for equal parts brilliance and eccentricity. Living hermit-like in the same Midlands town for his entire life, he supposedly refuses contact ...

Will Eisner's innovations in the comics, especially the comic book and the graphic novel, as well as his devotion to comics analysis, make him one of comics' first true auteurs and the cartoonist so revered ...

James Egan is an award-winning filmmaker and founder of Wild at Heart Films. He is professor at the University of Southern California's Graduate School of Cinematic Arts. Egan serves as a National Trustee ...

Elizabeth Anne Payne is professor of history at the University of Mississippi. She is author of Reform, Labor, and Feminism: Margaret Dreier Robins and the Women's Trade Union League and coeditor of vols. ...