O M Brack, Jr., a professor of English literature emeritus at Arizona State University, is coauthor ofSamuel Johnson's Early Biographersand coeditor ofThe Early Biographies of Samuel Johnson. He has edited volumes of the Works of Samuel Johnson published by Yale and is textual editor for the Georgia series the Works of Tobias Smollett. Brack is the curator of the 2009 Johnson tercentenary exhibition at the Huntington Library.