Merle Goldman is Professor of History, Emerita, at Boston University and Associate of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University.John Chesswell Keats was born in Moultrie, Georgia on December 6, 1920. He attended the University of Michigan and the University of Pennsylvania before serving in the Army Air Corps in the Pacific during World War II. In the 1950s, he worked as a copy editor and reporter for The Washington Daily News. He taught at Syracuse University from 1974 until 1990. His first book, The Crack in the Picture Window, was published in 1956. His other books included The Insolent Chariots, The Sheepskin Psychosis, They Fought Alone, and What Ever Happened to… Mom's Apple Pie: The American Food Industry and How to Cope with It. His biographies included Howard Hughes and You Might as Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker. He also wrote two quasi-autobiographical volumes entitled The New Romans: An American Experience and Of Time and an Island. He died on November 3, 2000 at the age of 79.