Norton Anthology of American Literature Beginnings to 1865

Wayne Franklin is Professor of English at the University of Connecticut.

Philip F. Gura (Ph.D. Harvard)nbsp;is William S. Newman Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture and Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of many books, including The Wisdom of Words: Language, Theology, and Literature in the New England Renaissance; A Glimpse of Sion's Glory: Puritan Radicalism in New England, 1620-1660; Jonathan Edwards, America's Evangelical; and American Transcendentalism: A History. For ten years he was editor of the journal Early American Literature. He is an elected member of the Society of American Historians, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the American Antiquarian…  More Society, and the Colonial Society of Massachusetts.  Less

Jerome Klinkowitz (Ph.D. Wisconsin), is University Distinguished Scholar and Professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa. He is the author or editor of over forty books in postwar culture and literature, among them,nbsp;Structuring the Void: The Struggle for Subject in Contemporary American Fiction; Kurt Vonnegut's America; Literary Disruptions: The Making of a Post-Contemporary American Fiction; and The Practice of Fiction in America: Writers from Hawthorne to the Present.Arnold Krupat (Ph.D. Columbia) is Professor of Literature at Sarah Lawrence College.nbsp;He is the author of, among other books, Ethnocriticism: Ethnography, History, Literature; Red Matters: Native American…  More Studies; and, most recently, All That Remains: Varieties of Indigenous Expression (2009). He is the editor of a number of anthologies, including Native American Autobiography: An Anthology and New Voices in Native American Literary Criticism. With Brian Swann, he edited Here First: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers, which won the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers Award for best book of nonfiction prose in 2001.  Less

Robert S. Levine is professor of English and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park. His most recent book is Dislocating Race and Nation: Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism.