Blanche H. Gelfant is the author of The American City Novel, Women Writing in America: Voices in Collage,and Cross-Cultural Reckonings: A Triptych of Russian, American and Canadian Texts.For many years she was the Robert E. Maxwell Professor in the Arts and Sciences at Dartmouth. In recognition of her contributions as critic and scholar, the American Literature Division of the Modern Language Association has honored professor Gelfant with the Jay B. Hubbell Award for Lifetime Achievement in American Literary Studies.