About the Author

Gloria L. Cronin, a professor of English at Brigham Young University, is author of A Room of His Own: In Search of the Feminine in the Novels of Saul Bellow and Small Planets: Saul Bellow and the Art of Short Fiction and coeditor (with Ben Siegel) of Conversations with Saul Bellow and Conversations with Robert Penn Warren, the latter two published by University Press of Mississippi. Ben Siegel (1925-2010) was professor of English at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona. He is coauthor (with Joseph Gaer) of The Puritan Heritage: America's Roots in the Bible and coeditor (with Jackson R. Bryer) of Conversations with Neil Simon and (with Gloria L. Cronin) of Conversations with Robert Penn Warren and Conversations with Saul Bellow, the latter three published by University Press of Mississippi.