Walter Greaves Cowan and Jack B. McGuire, veteran authorities on the Louisiana political scene, trace the history of the state's leaders from the French and Spanish colonial eras to the present day. Using ...

Soon after Kingsley Amis (1922-1995) published his first novel, Lucky Jim, in 1954, he became an object of literary and journalistic scrutiny. This attention would continue until his last days, four decades ...

Jack B. McGuire served as special assistant to the mayor of New Orleans, press secretary to the mayor, and director of public relations from 1964 to 1970 as well as a councilman-at-large for the city of ...

Nancy J. Peterson is associate professor of English and American studies at Purdue University. She is author of Beloved: Character Studies and Against Amnesia: Contemporary Women Writers and the Crises ...

Walter Greaves Cowan was a reporter and an editor for the New Orleans States-Item and vice-president of the Times-Picayune Publishing Corporation. He is coauthor of New Orleans Yesterday and Today and ...

Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) remarked on several occasions that the farther south one went in America, the more congenial life became. Though he sojourned elsewhere, he embraced the South, the region ...

Kenneth Holditch (1933-2022) was professor emeritus at the University of New Orleans, editor of the Tennessee Williams Journal, and coeditor (with Mel Gussow) of the Library of America edition of Tennessee ...

Richard Freeman Leavitt (1929-2003) was editor and compiler of The World of Tennessee Williams and compiler of the photographs and the genealogical chart for Lyle Leverich's Tom: The Unknown Tennessee ...