About the Author

Len Gougeon, Ph.D. is a Professor of American Literature and Distinguished University Fellow at the University of Scranton, where he has taught for thirty-five years. A former President of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society, he is the author of Virtue's Hero: Emerson, Antislavery, and Reform(1990, 2010), and Emerson & Eros: The Making of a Cultural Hero (2007). He is also the co-editor of Emerson's Antislavery Writings (1995, 2001). In 2008 he received the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society's Distinguished Achievement Award for his scholarship on Emerson and the Transcendental movement.