Eudora Welty is author of many novels and story collections, including The Optimist’s Daughter (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), Losing Battles, The Ponder Heart, The Robber Bridegroom, A Curtain of Green ...

William Rodney Allen teaches at Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts. He is author of Walker Percy: A Southern Wayfarer and editor of The Coen Brothers: Interviews and Conversations with Kurt ...

Edward Albee has reigned over the American theater since 1959. By transporting the techniques of European absurdism to American soil, he ushered in a new era in the American theater. He has said he won ...

Conversations with Erskine Caldwell contains thirty-two interviews with this major writer, who during his long career enjoyed both the celebrity and the controversy that his books generated. These collected ...

Edwin T. Arnold is professor of English at Appalachian State University. He is coauthor of Reading Faulkner: Sanctuary and editor or coeditor of Conversations with Erskine Caldwell, A Cormac McCarthy ...

Philip C. Kolin is University Distinguished Professor in the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Southern Mississippi, where he teaches classes on American drama and Shakespeare.