About the Author

THELMA J. SHINN is Professor of English and Women's Studies at Arizona State University. She has published in such journals as Contemporary Literature, Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Nathaniel Hawthorne Journal, Literature and Psychology, and Modern Drama. She is the author of Radiant Daughters: Fictional American Women (Greenwood, 1986) and Worlds Within Women: Myth and Mythmaking in Fantastic Literature by Women (Greenwood, 1986).