About the Author

Derek Parker Royal is the founder of the Philip Roth Society as well as founding Executive Editor of the peer-reviewed journal, Philip Roth Studies. He is the editor of Philip Roth: New Perspectives on an American Author (Praeger, 2005), and his essays on American literature and graphic narrative have appeared in such journals as Contemporary Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, Modern Drama, Studies in the Novel, Critique, MELUS, Shofar, Studies in American Jewish Literature, International Journal of Comic Art, The Mark Twain Annual, and Poe Studies/Dark Romanticism.