Daniel Ericksonreceived his doctorate at the University of Western Australia and currently lives in Melbourne, Australia. This is his first book.Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina is the author and editor of several books, including Carrington ; Black London (a New York Times notable book); Black Victorians , Black Victoriana ; Frances Hodgson Burnett ; and others. She is the Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor in Biography at Dartmouth College, where she also chairs the English Department, the first African-American woman to do so in the Ivy League. She has won grants from Fulbright and the National Endowment for Humanities and hosts The Book Show , a nationally syndicated weekly radio program that airs… on ninety stations across the country, interviewing current authors of literary fiction, biography, and history.