The South Carolina Review Interview Biographies
Researched and compiled by Joseph Schumacher
Contributor	Role	Description	Bio	Issue
Baer, William	Interviewer	Tender Mercies: A Conversation with Horton Foote	William Baer was the founding editor and publisher of The Formalist from 1990 to 2004. He earned his B.A. from Rutgers University, an M.A. in English from New York University, an M.A. in Writing from The Johns Hopkins University, an M.A. in Screenwriting from the University of Southern California, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of South Carolina under James Dickey. He is the author of twelve books, including "Borges" and Other Sonnets; Writing Metrical Poetry; Luis de Camoes: Selected Sonnets; Conversations with Derek Walcott; and Elia Kazan: Interviews. His award-winning play The Amistad Case was produced at the Dayton Playhouse, and his bio-drama Guiteau was performed at the Metropolitan Theater of New York. He has also received an ATHE Development Award, the James K. Wilson Playwriting Award, the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, an NEA Fellowship for fiction, and the Jack Nicholson Screenwriting Award. He teaches creative writing, cinema, and world cultures at the University of Evansville in Indiana.	Vol. 35.1 F2002
Baer, William	Interviewer	On the Waterfront: An Interview with Budd Schulberg	William Baer was the founding editor and publisher of The Formalist from 1990 to 2004. He earned his B.A. from Rutgers University, an M.A. in English from New York University, an M.A. in Writing from The Johns Hopkins University, an M.A. in Screenwriting from the University of Southern California, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of South Carolina under James Dickey. He is the author of twelve books, including "Borges" and Other Sonnets; Writing Metrical Poetry; Luis de Camoes: Selected Sonnets; Conversations with Derek Walcott; and Elia Kazan: Interviews. His award-winning play The Amistad Case was produced at the Dayton Playhouse, and his bio-drama Guiteau was performed at the Metropolitan Theater of New York. He has also received an ATHE Development Award, the James K. Wilson Playwriting Award, the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, an NEA Fellowship for fiction, and the Jack Nicholson Screenwriting Award. He teaches creative writing, cinema, and world cultures at the University of Evansville in Indiana.	Vol. 36.2 S2004
Bennett, Alma	Interviewer	"Conversations with Mary Gordon"	Alma Bennett teaches English at Clemson University and is the Director of the University's M.A. in English program.  She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Texas, Dallas in 1991 and is currently focusing her work in the arenas of American literature, classics in translation, and interdisciplinary humanities.  In September of 1996, she produced the Twayne series study of Mary Gordon.	Vol. 28.1.F1995
Betts, Doris	Interviewee	See Elizabeth Evans, "Conversations with Doris Betts"	[1932- ] As a student at UNC-Greensboro, Doris Betts won the Mademoiselle Magazine college fiction award and a Putnam award for her short story collection entitled The Gentle Insurrection.  She currently serves as an alumni distinguised professor for the English Department at UNC-Chapel Hill, where she sat as the Assistant Dean of the Honor Program from 1978 to 1981.  Her much acclaimed work has garnered several prizes, including three Sir Walter Raleigh awards, the Southern Book Award, the North Carolina Award for Literature, the John Dos Passos Prize, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Medal for the short story, among others.  Because of her many acclaimed works--such as Souls Raised from the Dead, The Astronomer and Other Stories, Beast of the Southern Wild and Other Stories, and The Scarlet Thread--The Writers' Network's annual Fiction Prize is named in honor of her.	Vol. 28.2.S1996
Brenna, Duff	Interviewer	Secondary Educations: An Interview with Greg Herriges	Duff Brenna holds the title of Professor Emeritus of English Literature and Creative Writing at California State University, San Marcos, where he also works as a freelance writer. He is the author of five published novels. His awards include an AWP award for best novel (About Mamie) and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Pushcart Prize Honorable Mention for publication of a chapter from The Altar of the Body, Milwaukee Magazine’s Best Short Story of the Year award for “Cristobell,” three Outstanding Faculty awards from San Diego State University, and the 2002 President’s Award for Scholarship and Creative Activity from Cal-State, San Marcos.	Vol. 38.2.S2006
Butcher, Justin	Interviewee	See Meredith Clermont-Ferrand, "A Weapon Inspector Calls on Mad George Dubya: An Interview with Justin Butcher"	Justin Butcher is a British playwright whose works The Madness of George Dubya and A Weapon's Inspector Calls present a satirical depiction of the rising tide of lunatic U.S. and British militarism in the Gulf.  Though he has erroneously been tagged as "anti-American," his presentations prove his love for these cultures and his bravery to give voice to the often-silenced need for a regime change at home.	Vol. 37.1.F2004
Calhoun, Richard J.	Interviewer	"Tom, Are You Listening?"--An Interview with Fred Wolfe	[1926-2004] Richard Calhoun was The South Carolina Review's Editor Emeritus since his retirement, when the series began.  His last appearance as a contributor to the journal came in the form of a lively and diplomatically phrased essay called "James Dickey: The Clemson Episode," appearing over the lines of one of Virgil Suarez's poems about Jim Dickey.  Dick Calhoun was one of the founding editors of The South Carolina Review, which might still be at Furman University if not for his efforts.	Vol.   6.2.S1974
Chappell, Larry	Interviewer	"An Interview with George Will"	Larry Chappell teaches Political Science at Mississippi Valley State University in Itta Bena, Mississippi.  Co-authored by Bernard Bray, his dissertation "Civic Theatre for Civic Education" won the 2004 Franklin L. Burdette Phi Sigma Alpha presented by the American Political Science Association.	Vol. 29.1.F1996
Clarke, Brock	Interviewee	See Aaron Gilbreath, "Scooter Freaks, Children Fat, and Trashbearing Nudists: Brock Clarke's Literary Warp Zone"	Brock Clarke, a writer whose stories are often described as bizarre and fantastic, was born in upstate New York and received his Ph.D. in English at the University of Rochester.  Since turning to fiction over two decades ago, Brock has written two short story collections as well as two novels.  His nonfiction has appeared in such respected journals as The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Southwestern American Literature.  He currently teaches creative writing at the University of Cincinnati and serves as Fiction Editor of The Cincinnati Review.	Vol. 39.2 S2007
Clermont-Ferrand, Meredith	Interviewer	"A Weapon Inspector Calls on Mad George Dubya: An Interview with James Butcher"	After receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1999, Meredith Clermont-Ferrand accepted an Assistant Professorship of Medieval Literature at Eastern Connecticut State University, in Willimantic, Connecticut. She currently serves as the editor of "Connecticut Review," and her latest publication is titled Anglo Saxon Propaganda in the Bayeux Tapestry.	Vol. 37.1.F2004
Crews, Harry	Interviewee	See Hank Nuwer, "The Writer Who Plays with Pain: Harry Crews"	Harry Crews was born on June 7, 1935, in Bacon County, Georgia, of humble beginnings and rough starts that show through his prose.  Despite being diagnosed with a debilitating disease at the age of 5, he would later enlist in the Marines to fight in the Korean War in 1953, at age 17.  In 1956, after being discharged, Crews enrolled in the University of Florida on a GI Bill, but soon abandoned school for an 18 month road trip on a a Triumph motorcycle.  Crews eventually graduated, moving on to a brief stint teaching junior high English in Jacksonville, but he ultimately returned to Gainsville to pursue a Master's degree in Education.  His first published novel was 1968's The Gospel Singer, and he has steadily published ever since, with multiple book credits as well as regular magazine columns, non-fiction, and screenplays.	Vol. 18.1.F1985
Cushman, Stephen	Interviewee	See Stephen Reichert, "An Interview with Stephen Cushman"	Stephen Cushman teaches American Literature and Poetry at the University of Virginia.  He has published three books of poetry, including Heart Island, as well as three books of non-fiction. His work has appeared in a variety of literary magazines, including His poems have appeared in various publications, including Southwest Review, Virginia Quarterly, and Callaloo.  An accomplished teacher, he has been named a Mayo Distinguised Teaching Professor (1994-1997) and has received the All-University Teaching Award (1992).	Vol. 34.2.S2002
Devlin, James E.	Interviewer	"Interviewing Elmore Leonard"	James Devlin has spent time as a professor of English at the College at Oneonta, State University of New York, where he coordinated the International James Fenimore Cooper Seminar.  He also wrote a Twayne Series book on Erskine Caldwell in 1984.	Vol. 33.2.S2001
Dickey, James	Interviewee	See Donald J. Grenier, "'The Iron of English': An Interview  with James Dickey"	[1923-1997] In 1923, James Dickey was born in Atlanta, Georgia.  Nineteen years later, he enrolled at Clemson University and was even a member of its football team.  But, after one semester, he chose to enlist in the Army Air Corps, where he served with the Army Night Fighter Squadrons during World War II, and with the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War. Between conflicts he attended Vanderbilt University, where he obtained degrees in English and Philosophy, as well as a minor in Astronomy. He published his first book, Into the Stone and Other Poems, in 1962. Buckdancer's Choice, a collection of his poetry, earned him a National Book Award in 1966, but he is best known for his novel Deliverance, which was made into a motion picture. Dickey read his poem "The Strength of Fields" at President Jimmy Carter's inauguration in 1977, and taught at the University of South Carolina from 1968 until his death in 1997.	Vol. 26.2.S1994
Elizabeth Evans	Interviewer	"Conversations with Doris Betts"	[1935- ] Elizabeth Evans grew up in Statesville, NC. She received her doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1970 and subsequently taught literature at Georgia Institute of Technology. She has authored books on various writers, including Eudora Welty (1981), May Sarton (1989), Anne Tyler (1993), and Doris Betts (1997). The papers of Elizabeth Evans are letters and other materials relating to prominent women writers, including Doris Betts, Josephine Jacobsen, Maxine Kumin, Sally Fitzgerald, May Sarton, Anne Tyler, and Cecil Dawkins.	Vol. 28.2 S1996
Foote, Horton	Interviewee	See William Baer, "Tender Mercies: A Conversation with Horton Foote"	Born in 1916 in the small Gulf town of Wharton, Texas, Horton Foote made his mark on the literary world as one of America's leading dramatists.  Foote began his career by writing plays for Playhouse 90, Philco Playhouse and U.S. Steel Hour, and received the Pulitzer Prize for his 1995 stage play, "The Young Man from Atlanta." Foote has twice received the Academy Award for Best Screenplay, for the film adaptation of Harper Lee's novel, "To Kill A Mockingbird" (1962), and for the original screenplay, "Tender Mercies" (1983). Foote is the recipient the National Medal of Arts (2000), the Master American Dramatist Award from the Pen American Center (2000), the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Writers Guild of America (1999), the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Drama (1998), and the William Inge Award for Lifetime Achievement in the American Theater (1989).	Vol. 35.1 F2002
Ford, Richard	Interviewee	See Elinor Ann Walker, "An Interview with Richard Ford"	Born in 1941 in Jackson, Mississippi, Richard Ford is the author of A Piece Of My Heart, The Ultimate Good Luck, The Sportswriter and its sequel Independence Day, Wildlife, and a volume of short stories entitled Rock Springs. Independence Day won Ford the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Pulitzer Prize in 1996.  Ford is a member of the Writers Guild and also holds a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and the PEN/Faulkner citation for fiction for The Sportswriter.	Vol. 31.2.S1999
Garrett, George	Interviewee	See Charles Israel, "George Garrett"	George Garrett, born in 1929, has published under several different genres, including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, plays, screenplays, and short stories. He is best known, however, for his trilogy of historical novels, Death of the Fox (1971), The Succession: A Novel of Elizabeth and James (1983), and Entered from the Sun (1990). Garrett received his PhD from Princeton, and his accolades include being a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Sabbatical Fellowship, a Ford Foundation Grant, and the Rome Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the T.S. Eliot Award, the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction, and the Commonwealth of Virginia Governor's Award for the Arts. He has been the poet laureate of Virginia since 2002.	Vol.   6.1.F1973
Garrett, George	Interviewee	See Paul Ruffin, "Interview with George Garrett"	George Garrett, born in 1929, has published under several different genres, including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, plays, screenplays, and short stories. He is best known, however, for his trilogy of historical novels, Death of the Fox (1971), The Succession: A Novel of Elizabeth and James (1983), and Entered from the Sun (1990). Garrett received his PhD from Princeton, and his accolades include being a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Sabbatical Fellowship, a Ford Foundation Grant, and the Rome Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the T.S. Eliot Award, the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction, and the Commonwealth of Virginia Governor's Award for the Arts. He has been the poet laureate of Virginia since 2002.	Vol. 16.2.S1984
Gilbreath, Aaron	Interviewer	Scooter Freaks, Chicken Fat, and Trashbearing Nudists: Brock Clarke's Literary Warp Zone	Aaron Gilbreath was active in the literary scene at Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon until his recent move to New York City.  He is a native of Arizona and has seen his work recently published in magazines such as Glimmer Train, the Portland Review, Hobart, the South Carolina Review, Sacramento News & Review, High Country News, Opium, NewPages, Storyglossia, and Word Riot.	Vol. 39.2 S2007
Gillespie, Deborah	Interviewer	An Interview with Diane Wakoski	Deborah Gillespie teaches creative writing, specifically poetry, and contemporary literature at the University of Wisconsin at Platteville, where she has resided since 1982.  Her work has appeared in Amherst Review, RE:AL, Virginia Adversaria, and others.  She also has two collections of poetry in circulation: The Luck of Living and Saving Grace.	Vol. 38.1.F2005
Gordon, Mary	Interviewee	See Alma Bennett, "Conversations with Mary Gordon"	[1949- ] Born in 1949, Mary Catherine Gordon is an author best known for her contributions to the study of Irish-American literature, as well as her her novels, memoirs and literary criticism.  Gordon grew up in Valley Stream and Far Rockaway, New York, where she attended the Mary Louis Academy.  She received her B.A. from Barnard College in 1971, and her M.F.A. from Syracuse University in 1973. In 1979 Gordon’s first novel, Final Payments, was published to tremendous critical acclaim, and it was followed quickly by The Company of Women in 1980. The success of her novels helped her to obtain a teaching position at Amherst College, where she remained for a few years.  Gordon's non-fiction has also earned her accolades; when Penguin Books approached Gordon to contribute a popular biography to their Lives series, she chose to write on Joan of Arc, and though she had no formal background as a historian, the book was such a success that it won her the O.B. Hardison award for the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies. Gordon is currently the McIntosh Professor of English at Barnard College.	Vol. 28.1.F1995
Gordon, Stuart	Interviewee	See Hank Nuwer, "Two Gentlemen of Chicago: David Mamet and Stuart Bordon"	[1947- ] Stuart Gordon is best known as a filmmaker whose credits include the H.P. Lovecraft adaptations, "Re-Animator" (1985) and "From Beyond" (1986).  His vast filmmaking experience give way to a significant theatrical background, and his other film credits range from the direct-to-video genre to bonafide Hollywood blockbusters. He co-founded Chicago's Organic Theater Company in 1969 and served as its artistic director until 1985.  In this position, he directed 35 plays, including David Mamet's "Sexual Perversity in Chicago" and the long-running "Bleacher Bums".	Vol. 17.2.S1985
Greiner, Donald J.	Interviewer	The Iron of English	Donald Greiner is Carolina (Distinguished Emeritus) Professor and Interim-Vice Provost at the University of South Carolina in Columbia.  He has received numerous awards, both for his teaching and for his eight books, which include Women Enter the Wilderness: Male Bonding and the American Novel of the 1980s and Women Without Men: Female Bonding and the American Novels of the 1980s.	Vol. 26.2.S1994
Gretlund, Jan Nordby	Interviewer	Interview with Percy Walker in His Home in Covington, Louisiana, January 2, 1981	Jan Nordby Gretlund is a Senior Lecturer of American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark, in Odense. He has served either an ACLS or Fulbright fellowships at Vanderbilt University, the University of Southern Mississippi, and the University of South Carolina.  His publications have addressed Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, and Southern Literature as a whole.  He is no doubt the leading authority on Southern literature in Denmark.	Vol. 13.2.S1981
Hahn, Robert	Interviewer	"Working with the Whole Surface": A Conversation with Chris Wallace-Crabbe	Robert Hahn is the author of five books of poetry, including All Clear (1996) and No Messages (2001).  He is also a translator of Italian poetry as well as an essayist and has been widely published in all three genres.  He is currently working on a non-fiction narrative discussing the travels and work of Venetian painter Tintoretto, the city's most prolific and original painter.  Hahn has served on the faculty at Simon's Rock of Bard College, Trinity College, and Harvard University among others and has also served as President at Johnson State College in Vermont for 10 years before retiring to concentrate on writing full-time.  He has received many awards for his work, including the Ernest Sandeen Award (University of Notre Dame), the Chelsea Magazine Award, the Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize, and Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and The Bogliasco Foundation.	Vol. 37.1.F2004
Hall, Donald	Interviewee	See Meredith Walker, "'I do it all because I love to do it': Donald Hall at Clemson"	[1928- ] Born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1928, Donald Hall began his writing career at the age of 16. He attended the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference at the age of sixteen, and later earned a B.A. from Harvard in 1951 and a B.Litt. from Oxford in 1953.  His collection The One Day (1988), won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and a Pulitzer Prize nomination.  Besides poetry, Hall has written books on baseball, the sculptor Henry Moore, and the poet Marianne Moore, as well as children's books, including 1979's Ox-Cart Man, which won the Caldecott Medal.  Hall has received two Guggenheim fellowships, the Poetry Society of America's Robert Frost Silver Medal, a Lifetime Achievement award from the New Hampshire Writers and Publisher Project, and the Ruth Lilly Prize for poetry. Hall also served as Poet Laureate of New Hampshire from 1984 to 1989 and was appointed the Library of Congress's fourteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry in June 2006.  He lives in Danbury, New Hampshire.	Vol. 22.1.F1989
Halme, Kathleen	Interviewee	See Josephine Pallos, "A Green Thought in a Green Shade: Interview with Kathleen Halme"	A native of Wakefield, Michigan, Kathleen Halme completed her M.F.A. in Creative Writing at the University of Michigan, where she won the Hopwood Creative Writing Award. She has since published three book-length collections of poetry: Every Substance Clothed, Equipoise, and her most recent, Drift and Pulse.  Among her many honors, her work has garnered a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in poetry and a National Endowment for the Humanities summer fellowship in anthropology. She currently resides Portland, Oregon with her husband.	Vol. 36.1.F2003
Herriges, Greg	Interviewee	See Brenna Duff, "Secondary Educations: An Interview with Greg Herriges"	Greg Herriges grew up in Highland Park, Illinois and Ft. Lauderdale, Florida during the 1950s and 60s, and found an interest in music by playing with area rock bands including the psychedelic group, Athanor. He began his teaching career in an inner-city Chicago high school and has remained in the educational vocation for a majority of his professional career. In March 1978, the Chicago Tribune Magazine published his story "Inherit The Streets," and in 1998, his novel, Winter Dance Party Murders, also hit the shelves.  Herriges has been nominated for both the Pushcart Prize and the Phillip K. Dick Science Fiction Award.  He currently teaches writing and literature at Harper College outside of Chicago.	Vol. 38.2 S2006
Herzog, Tobey	Interviewer	Tim O'Brien Interview	Tobey Herzog is a Professor of English at Wabash College, in Crawfordsville, Indiana.  A Vietnam veteran, he specializes in war literature and focuses much of his critical work on fellow Vietnam veteran Tim O'Brien.  His writings include a review-essay, entitled "Writing about Vietnam: A Heavy Heart-of-Darkness Trip" (1980) as well as a collection of short stories known as Vietnam War Stories: Innocence Lost (1992).	Vol. 31.1.F1998
Hill, Dorothy Combs	Interviewer	A 1986 Conversation with Jayne Anne Phillips	Dorothy Combs Hill earned her M.A. from Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English in 1977 and went on to earn a Ph.D. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  As an editor of Carolina Quarterly, she helped the magazine to earn two O.Henry Awards and a Best American Short Story Award.  She has been published in the Southern Quarterly for her interviews with Lee Smith and Bobbie Ann Mason, and in 1992, she published a book on Lee Smith as part of a Twayne Series study.  She has also spent time as a Professor at Georgetown University.	Vol. 24.1.F1991
Hill, Robert W.	Interviewer	"Tom, Are You Listening?" -- An Interview with Fred Wolfe	Robert Hill was a member of the Clemson University English faculty and co-author, with Richard Calhoun, of the Twayne series book James Dickey.  He recently retired from Kennesaw State University after 22 years of service during which time he served as the Chair of the KSU Faculty Council and as an Instructor of Creative Writing in Poetry among other topics.	Vol.   6.2.S1974
Humphreys, Josephine	Interviewee	See Mickey Pearlman, "A Conversation with Josephine Humphreys"	[1945- ] Born in Charleston in 1945, Josephine Humphreys is a renowned Southern writer with a penchant for Southern family life.  Humphreys studied creative writing with Reynolds Price at Duke University and went on to attend Yale University and the University of Texas. From 1970 to 1977, she taught English in Charleston.  After teaching, Humphreys began writing, and her 1983 book, Dreams of Sleep, earned her the 1984 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lyndhurst Prize, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. Her best known work, Rich in Love, was made into a film in 1993.	Vol. 22.2.S1990
Israel, Charles	Interviewer	George Garrett	Charles Israel completed his Ph.D. work at the University of South Carolina under the direction of George Garrett.  A writer of fiction, Mr. Israel has lived in Columbia and has taught at the South Carolina State University at Orangeburg.	Vol.   6.1.F1973
Jones, Declan	Interviewee	See Lorraine Pearsall, "Strokestown Park and the Making of The Famine Museum: An Interview with Declan Jones"	Declan Jones is the General Manager of Strokestown Park in the small town of Strokestown, County Roscommon, Ireland.  This park is home to The Famine Museum, which documents the great potato famine of Ireland between 1845 and 1850--the greatest single social disaster in Irish history.	Vol. 32.1.F1999
Jones, Peter Thabit	Interviewer	An Interview with Aeronwy Thomas	[1951- ] Born in Swansea, Wales, UK, in 1951, Peter Thabit Jones has received several awards and has tutored Literature at the University of Wales, Swansea during his career. He is the founder and editor of The Seventh Quarry, a poetry magazine based out of Swansea, Wales, and his most recent collection of his poems, The Lizard Catchers, was released in 2006.	Vol. 39.1 F2006
Jones, Peter Thabit	Interviewer	An Interview with Martin Holroyd, Aeronwy Thomas's Publisher	[1951- ] Born in Swansea, Wales, UK, in 1951, Peter Thabit Jones has received several awards and has tutored Literature at the University of Wales, Swansea during his career. He is the founder and editor of The Seventh Quarry, a poetry magazine based out of Swansea, Wales, and his most recent collection of his poems, The Lizard Catchers, was released in 2006.	Vol. 39.1 F2006
Jones, Sharon L.	Interviewer	An Interview with Derek Walcott	Sharon Jones completed her Ph.D. in English at the University of Georgia, Athens and has spent time teaching African-American Literature at both Clemson University and Earlham College. She specializes in American literature to 1900, 20th-century American literature, and African-American literature. Her work concerning African-American writers has been featured in publications such as American National Biography, The Womanist, and The ADE Bulletin.  She is also listed as a co-editor of The Prentice Hall Anthology of African American Literature (2000).	Vol. 30.1.F1997
Keene, Jarret	Interviewee	See Ryan G. Van Cleave, "On the Extraterrestrial Highway: An Interview with Jarret Keene"	Jarret Keene is editor of The Underground Guide to Las Vegas in his hometown of Las Vegas, Nevada.  He has authored a variety of pieces, including a collection of poetry entitled Monster Fashion (2002) as well as a rock-band biography feature The Killers: Destiny is Calling Me.  He received his Ph.D. in English from Florida State University in 2001 and has spent time as the editor of Sundog: The Southeast Review, which is based out of his alma mater.	Vol. 35.2 S2003
Keillor, Garrison	Interviewee	See Peter A. Scholl, "Garrison Keillor"	Born Gary Edward Keillor in 1942, Garrison Keillor is an author, humorist, columnist, musician, satirist, and radio personality. He is best known as host of the Minnesota Public Radio show A Prairie Home Companion, which is based off of his youth in Anoka, Minnesota.  Keillor has written many magazine and newspaper articles (among publications such as The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly), as well as many books for adults as well as children. In 1994, Keillor was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame.	Vol. 24.2.S1992
Kennedy, William	Interviewee	See Edward C. Reilly, "On an Averill Park Afternoon with William Kennedy"	A writer and journalist born and raised in Albany, New York, William Kennedy is most commonly known for his Pulitzer Prize winning novel Ironweed. Kennedy, born in 1928, is a graduate of Siena College in Loudonville, New York. The author served in the Army during the second world war. Kennedy lived in Puerto Rico after the war where he met his mentor, Saul Bellow, who encouraged him to write novels. Kennedy returned to his hometown of Albany and worked for the Albany Times Union as an investigative journalist. He currently resides at Averill Park, a hamlet about 16 miles east of Albany.	Vol. 21.2.S1989
Leonard, Elmore	Interviewee	See James E. Devlin, "Interviewing Elmore Leonard"	Born in New Orleans in 1925 and then transplanted to Detroit, Elmore Leonard's earliest and most prevalent influences were the 1930's Detroit Tigers and gangster culture.  Leonard graduated from the University of Detroit Jesuit High School in 1943 and got his first break in publishing pulp fiction in the 1950's.  A number of Leonard's novels have been adapted as films, perhaps most notably Out of Sight, Get Shorty in 1995, and Rum Punch as the 1997 film Jackie Brown. Leonard lives in Oakland County, Michigan, with his family.	Vol. 33.2.S2001
Mamet, David	Interviewer	Two Gentleman of Chicago: David Mamet and Stuart Bordon	[1947- ] Born in Flossmoor, Illinois, David Mamet studied at Goddard College in Vermont and at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theater in New York before venturing into the professional world of the Theatre. He began his career as an actor and director before achieving success in 1976 with three Off-Off Broadway plays, The Duck Variations, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, and American Buffalo.	Vol. 17.2.S1985
McCall, Len	Interviewer	"Conversations with Iris Murdoch"	Len McCall is the Chief Operating Officer at The University Center at Greenville TEC in Greenville, South Carolina.	Vol. 28.2.S1996
Murdoch, Iris	Interviewee	See Len McCall, "Conversations with Iris Murdoch"	Dame Jean Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin in 1919, and at an early age moved with her family to London.  Her formative education includes studies at Somerville College, Oxford, and postgraduate work at Newnham College, Cambridge, In 1948, she became a fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. Murdoch's first novel, Under the Net, was published in 1954, following previously published essays on philosophy, including the first study in English of Jean-Paul Sartre. Murdoch was awarded the Booker Prize in 1978 for The Sea, the Sea, and her husband's memoir of Murdoch's descent into Alzheimer's became a 2001 film. Murdoch wrote upwards of 25 novels and other works of philosophy and drama until 1995, when she began to suffer the early effects of Alzheimer's disease; she died at 79 in 1999.	Vol. 28.2.S1996
Nuwer, Hank	Interviewer	Maurice Sendak Q & A	Hank Nuwer is the former Editor-in-Chief of Arts Indiana magazine and is author of How to Write Like an Expert on Any Subject (1995) and Broken Pledges: The Deadly Rite of Hazing (1990).  Also, Idaho State University recently released a collection of his interviews with various writers entitled Rendezvousing with Contemporary Authors.  He currently teaches journalism at the University of Richmond, having previously taught as a professor at Clemson University and Ball State University.  He is anticipating the release of his new investigation from the Indiana University Press on the tenuous relationship between university administrators and student groups.  His wife, Jenine Howard, is his former editor at The Saturday Evening Post, and together they have two sons, Chris and Adam.	Vol. 16.2.S1984
Nuwer, Hank	Interviewer	Two Gentleman of Chicago: David Mamet and Stuart Bordon	Hank Nuwer is the former Editor-in-Chief of Arts Indiana magazine and is author of How to Write Like an Expert on Any Subject (1995) and Broken Pledges: The Deadly Rite of Hazing (1990).  Also, Idaho State University recently released a collection of his interviews with various writers entitled Rendezvousing with Contemporary Authors.  He currently teaches journalism at the University of Richmond, having previously taught as a professor at Clemson University and Ball State University.  He is anticipating the release of his new investigation from the Indiana University Press on the tenuous relationship between university administrators and student groups.  His wife, Jenine Howard, is his former editor at The Saturday Evening Post, and together they have two sons, Chris and Adam.	Vol. 17.2.S1985
Nuwer, Hank	Interviewer	The Writer Who Plays with Pain: Harry Crews	Hank Nuwer is the former Editor-in-Chief of Arts Indiana magazine and is author of How to Write Like an Expert on Any Subject (1995) and Broken Pledges: The Deadly Rite of Hazing (1990).  Also, Idaho State University recently released a collection of his interviews with various writers entitled Rendezvousing with Contemporary Authors.  He currently teaches journalism at the University of Richmond, having previously taught as a professor at Clemson University and Ball State University.  He is anticipating the release of his new investigation from the Indiana University Press on the tenuous relationship between university administrators and student groups.  His wife, Jenine Howard, is his former editor at The Saturday Evening Post, and together they have two sons, Chris and Adam.	Vol. 18.1.F1985
Nuwer, Hank	Interviewer	A Skull Session with Kurt Vonnegut Fiction	Hank Nuwer is the former Editor-in-Chief of Arts Indiana magazine and is author of How to Write Like an Expert on Any Subject (1995) and Broken Pledges: The Deadly Rite of Hazing (1990).  Also, Idaho State University recently released a collection of his interviews with various writers entitled Rendezvousing with Contemporary Authors.  He currently teaches journalism at the University of Richmond, having previously taught as a professor at Clemson University and Ball State University.  He is anticipating the release of his new investigation from the Indiana University Press on the tenuous relationship between university administrators and student groups.  His wife, Jenine Howard, is his former editor at The Saturday Evening Post, and together they have two sons, Chris and Adam.	Vol. 19.2.S1987
Nuwer, Hank	Interviewer	Comes A Horseman-Poet: An Interview with Henry Taylor	Hank Nuwer is the former Editor-in-Chief of Arts Indiana magazine and is author of How to Write Like an Expert on Any Subject (1995) and Broken Pledges: The Deadly Rite of Hazing (1990).  Also, Idaho State University recently released a collection of his interviews with various writers entitled Rendezvousing with Contemporary Authors.  He currently teaches journalism at the University of Richmond, having previously taught as a professor at Clemson University and Ball State University.  He is anticipating the release of his new investigation from the Indiana University Press on the tenuous relationship between university administrators and student groups.  His wife, Jenine Howard, is his former editor at The Saturday Evening Post, and together they have two sons, Chris and Adam.	Vol. 27.1/2. F1994/S1995
O'Brien, Tim	Interviewee	See Tobey Herzog, "Tim O'Brien Interview"	Tim O'Brien was born in Austin, Texas, but was raised in Minnesota, and, despite a strong anti-war sentiment and a B.A. in Political Science in 1968, O'Brien was drafted and served in the Vietnam War. He is best known for his novel Going After Cacciato, which won the 1979 National Book Award in fiction, and The Things They Carried, which was named one of the ten best books of 1990 by The New York Times. O'Brien received the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award in fiction and was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Another one of his novels, In the Lake of the Woods, was named by Time magazine as the best novel of 1994. The book also received the James Fenimore Cooper Prize from the Society of American Historians and was selected as one of the ten best books of the year by The New York Times. O'Brien's short stories have appeared in Esquire, Harper's, Atlantic, Playboy, Granta, Gentleman's Quarterly, The New Yorker, and in several editions of The O. Henry Prize Stories, the Pushcart Prize, and Best American Short Stories. O'Brien has recieved fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts and is now a	Vol. 31.1.F1998
			visiting Professor and Endowed Chair at Southwest Texas State University.
Pallos, Josephine	Interviewer	A Green Thought in a Green Shade: Interview with Kathleen Halme	Josephine Pallos is poetry editor for the GSU Review out of Georgia State University in Atlanta.  Her works have appeared in Whiskey Island, Figdust, River City, and the Beloit Poetry Journal.	Vol. 36.1.F2003
Pate, Willard	Interviewer	Interview with Richard Wilbur	Willard Pate teaches American Literature at Furman, where she directs the visiting writers' program and coordinates the foreign study program.  She has taught Furman students in both London and Stratford, England.  Her essay "Pilgrimmage to Yoknapatawhpha" appeared in The Furman Magazine in 1969.	Vol.   3.1.F1970
Pearlman, Mickey	Interviewer	A Conversation with Josephine Humphreys	Mickey Pearlman earned her B.A. and M.A. in English, as well as a M.A. in Philosophy and a Ph.D. in English and American Literature, from City College of New York.  She also sits as a book reviewer for The Boston Globe, The Minneapolis Star Tribune, and The Forward, and has taught Memoir Writing and the Art of Interviewing at the University of Minnesota.  Pearlman has written two books, What to Read: The Essential Guide to Reading Group Members and Other Book Lovers (1999) and Listen to Their Voices (1996), and has co-authored the Twayne Series edition of Tillie Olsen (1991).  She has also edited American Women Writing Fiction: Memory, Identity, Family, and Space (1989) and Mother Puzzles (1989).	Vol. 22.2.S1990
Pearsall, Lorraine	Interviewer	Strokestown Park and the Making of The Famine Museum: An Interview with Declan Jones	Lorraine Pearsall teaches English for the Division of the Humanities at Macon State College in Macon, Georgia.  She wrote her doctorial dissertation for The University of Georgia investigating W.H. Auden and has published an interview discussing Auden's poetry with Richard Wilbur for the W.H. Auden Society in April of 1994.	Vol. 32.1.F1999
Phillips, Jayne Anne	Interviewee	See Dorothy Combs Hill, "A 1986 Conversation with Jayne Anne Phillips"	Jayne Anne Phillips published her first collection of stories, Black Tickets, in 1979, a work which garnered her the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction as given by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.  She published her first novel, Machine Dreams, in 1984 at the age of 26, and received a nomination for the National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as the recognition of being one of the twelve best books of the year from The New York Times Book Review. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and a Bunting Fellowship from the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College and is currently a Professor of English and Director of the MFA Program at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey.	Vol. 24.1.F1991
Rash, Ron	Interviewee	See Jack Shuler, "An Interview with Ron Rash"	Ron Rash sits as the Parris Chair in Appalachian Studies at Western Carolina Unviersity.  He has published several poems, short stories, and novels, including Chemistry and Other Stories (2007), The World Made Straight: A Novel (2007), Saints at the River: A Novel (2005), One Foot in Eden: A Novel (2003), and Raising the Dead (2002).  His work has appeared in The Yale Review, Sewanee Review, and Southern Review among others.	Vol. 33.1.F2000
Reichert, Stephen	Interviewer	An Interview with Stephen Cushman	Stephen Reichert is the founder and editor of Smartish Pace magazine, based out of Baltimore, Maryland.  Some of his many interviews with contemporary poets may be found at the magazine website: www.smartishpace.com.  His discussion with poet David Kirby appeared in the December 2001 edition of The Arkansas Review.  And currently, Reichert resides in Washington, D.C., where he serves as a Traffic Court Judge for the district.	Vol. 34.2.S2002
Reilly, Edward C.	Interviewer	On an Averill Park Afternoon with William Kennedy	[1934-2000] Edward Reilly focused his studies on William Kennedy, producing a Twayne series book on the author in 1991, as well as an essay entitled "A William Kennedy Bibliography" for the Bulletin of Bibliography that same year.  He earned a B.A. in English from Memphis State University and later, a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Mississippi in Oxford.  Reilly taught English at Arkansas State University for 30 years until an auto-accident forced him to cutback from that role in 1995.  He died suddenly in 2000 and is survived by four children and five grandchildren.	Vol. 21.2.S1989
Rios, Alberto	Interviewee	See Timothy S. Sedore, "An American Borderer: An Interview with Alberto Rios"	[1952- ] Alberto Rios is an internationally known poet whose many collections of poetry and short stories include The Theater of Night (2007), The Iguana Killer: Twelve Stories of the Heart (1998), and Teodoro Luna's Two Kisses (1992).  His collection The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body (2002) was nominated for the National Book Award for Poetry.  He attended the University of Arizona where he earned a B.A. in English Literature in 1947, a B.A. in Psychology in 1975, and his M.F.A. in 1979.  Currently, Rios sits as a Regents' Professor of English at Arizona State University and resides in Chandler, Arizona with his wife.	Vol. 34.1.F2001
Rodriguez, Richard	Interviewee	See Timothy S. Sedore, "'American Opera': An Interview with Richard Rodriguez"	[1944- ] Born in San Francisco, Richard Rodriguez is the son of Mexican immigrants, and his most popular novel, Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez, was published in 1981. Rodriguez received a B.A. from Stanford University, an M.A. from Columbia University, was a Ph.D. candidate in English Renaissance Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, and attended the Warburg Institute in London on a Fulbright Fellowship. He is also a frequent guest on PBS's The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, for which he received the 1997 George Foster Peabody Award. His books have earned him several impressive nominations.  Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father (1992) was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and Brown: The Last Discovery of America (2003), which explores his ideas concerning the "browning of America," was a finalist for the National Book Critics Award. In addition, he has been published in The American Scholar, Change, College English, Harper's Magazine, Mother Jones, Reader's Digest, and Time.	Vol. 35.1 F2002
Rodriguez, Richard	Interviewee	See Timothy S. Sedore, “'The American ‘I’': An Interview with Richard Rodriguez"	[1944- ] Born in San Francisco, Richard Rodriguez is the son of Mexican immigrants, and his most popular novel, Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez, was published in 1981. Rodriguez received a B.A. from Stanford University, an M.A. from Columbia University, was a Ph.D. candidate in English Renaissance Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, and attended the Warburg Institute in London on a Fulbright Fellowship. He is also a frequent guest on PBS's The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, for which he received the 1997 George Foster Peabody Award. His books have earned him several impressive nominations.  Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father (1992) was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and Brown: The Last Discovery of America (2003), which explores his ideas concerning the "browning of America," was a finalist for the National Book Critics Award. In addition, he has been published in The American Scholar, Change, College English, Harper's Magazine, Mother Jones, Reader's Digest, and Time.	Vol. 36.1.F2003
Rogers, Pattiann	Interviewee	See Sheila Austin Whitehouse, "An Interview with Pattiann Rogers"	Born in Joplin, Mississippi, Pattiann Rogers graduated with her B.A. from the University of Missouri in 1961.  She would go on to earn her M.A. from the University of Houston and would later hold teaching positions at the University of Texas, the University of Montana, Washington University of St. Louis, and Mercer University.  Currently, she is a faculty member of a M.F.A. program in Creative Writing at Pacific University.  Her volumes of poetry include Firekeeper (2005), Generations (2004), and Song of the World Becoming, New and Collected Poems, 1981-2001, which have earned her several prizes, including the Tietjens Prize, the Hokin Prize, and the Bock Prize from Poetry, the Roethke Prize from Poetry Northwest, the Strousse Award from Prairie Schooner (1993, 1996), five Pushcart Prizes, and an appearance in The Best American Poetry of 1996.	Vol. 25.1.F1992
Ruffin, Paul	Interviewer	Interview with George Garrett	Born in Millport, Alabama in 1941, Paul Ruffin earned his B.A. in English from Mississippi State University in 1964.  Following, he earned an M.A. in English in 1968, and a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1974.  He has since held teaching positions with Mississippi State University and with Sam Houston State University, where he teaches currently. While at Sam Houston State, he founded and acts as Editor-in-Chief for the Texas Review and also founded and now directs the Texas Review Press.  A writer throughout genres, Ruffin's most recent work includes a collection of short stories entitled The Man Who Would Be God (1995), and a collection of poetry entitled Circling (1996), winner of the 1997 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Poetry.	Vol. 16.2.S1984
Schiffer, James	Interviewer	An Interview with Richard Stern	James Schiffer earned his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and later his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.  He has taught English at Hampton-Sydney College as well as Northern Michigan University, where he currently serves as a Professor and Head of the Department of English.  He also serves as President of the Michigan Association of Departments of English (MADE). He is the author of a Twayne Series book on Richard Stern, but his primary expertise lies in the realm of Shakespeare.  With several publications under his name, he has also served as a lecturer for the Shakespeare Association of America's annual meetings.	Vol. 25.2.S1993
Scholl, Peter A.	Interviewer	Garrison Keillor	Peter Scholl teaches English at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, where he also serves as Editor of Agora: Luther College in Coversation and as the faculty sponsor for the Alpha Beta Xi Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta.  He has written a Twayne Series book on Garrison Keillor and has recently found an interest in compartive literature between American and Chinese cultures.  With his work in this field, he directed the Hangzhou Study Abroad Program for the Lutheran Colleges China Consortium in 1998, and has also taught several English courses in China as well.	Vol. 24.2.S1992
Schulberg, Budd	Interviewee	See William Baer, "On the Waterfront: An Interview with Budd Schulberg"	Born in 1914 in New York City, Budd Schulberg began his life as Hollywood royalty, his father being the head of Paramount Pictures at the time. Schulberg attended Deerfield Academy and then went on to Dartmouth College, where he was actively involved in the Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern humor magazine. In 1939, he collaborated on the screenplay for Winter Carnival, a light comedy set at Dartmouth, with F. Scott Fitzgerald. Dartmouth College awarded him an honorary degree in 1960. Budd Schulberg is best known for his 1941 novel, What Makes Sammy Run, his 1947 novel The Harder They Fall, his 1954 Academy-award-winning screenplay for On the Waterfront, and his 1957 screenplay A Face in the Crowd. He resides in Westhampton, Long Island, New York.	Vol. 36.2 S2004
Sedore, Timothy S.	Interviewer	An American Borderer: An Interview with Alberto Rios	Timothy Sedore earned his B.A. from New York University, his M.A. from Arizona State University, and his Ed.D from Columbia University.  He currently teaches English at Bronx Community College at The City University of New York.  His has had recent nonfiction publications in Michigan Quarterly Review, Northwest Review, and LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory.  His research of the rhetoric of Civil War memorials is being collected in "We Trace No Semblance of Dishonor": The Rhetoric of Epitaphs and Elegies of the Confederacy and Post-Civil War America.	Vol. 34.1.F2001
Sedore, Timothy S.	Interviewer	"American Opera": An Interview with Richard Rodriguez	Timothy Sedore earned his B.A. from New York University, his M.A. from Arizona State University, and his Ed.D from Columbia University.  He currently teaches English at Bronx Community College at The City University of New York.  His has had recent nonfiction publications in Michigan Quarterly Review, Northwest Review, and LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory.  His research of the rhetoric of Civil War memorials is being collected in "We Trace No Semblance of Dishonor": The Rhetoric of Epitaphs and Elegies of the Confederacy and Post-Civil War America.	Vol. 35.1 F2002
Sedore, Timothy S.	Interviewer	“The American ‘I’”: An Interview with Richard Rodriguez	Timothy Sedore earned his B.A. from New York University, his M.A. from Arizona State University, and his Ed.D from Columbia University.  He currently teaches English at Bronx Community College at The City University of New York.  His has had recent nonfiction publications in Michigan Quarterly Review, Northwest Review, and LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory.  His research of the rhetoric of Civil War memorials is being collected in "We Trace No Semblance of Dishonor": The Rhetoric of Epitaphs and Elegies of the Confederacy and Post-Civil War America.	Vol. 36.1.F2003
Sendak, Maurice	Interviewee	See Hank Nuwer, "Maurice Sendak Q & A"	After viewing Fantasia as a child, Maurice Sendak decided he wanted to draw for a living.  Born in Brooklyn in 1928, Sendak's illustrations were first published in 1947 in a textbook titled Atomics for the Millions. He spent much of the 1950s working as an artist for children's books before beginning to write his own stories. His most popular work, Where the Wild Things Are, was published in 1968, and is being developed as a live-action film for a 2008 release. The book also earned Sendak a Caldecott Medal and the Hans Christian Andersen Award for children's book illustration.  Sendak was also active in theater and was an early member of the National Board of Advisors for the Children's Television Workshop during the development stages of the television series Sesame Street.	Vol. 16.2.S1984
Shuler, Jack	Interviewer	An Interview with David Tillinghast	A native of Orangeburg, South Carolina, Jack Shuler earned his M.F.A. in Poetry from Brooklyn College.  He is working for his Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric at the City University of New York.  His past publications include poems, which have appeared in Brooklyn Review, S.P.A.W.N., and BigCityLit.com, and essays addressing contemporary poetics, which may be found in the South Carolina Review.	Vol. 32.2.S2000
Shuler, Jack	Interviewer	An Interview with Ron Rash	A native of Orangeburg, South Carolina, Jack Shuler earned his M.F.A. in Poetry from Brooklyn College.  He is working for his Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric at the City University of New York.  His past publications include poems, which have appeared in Brooklyn Review, S.P.A.W.N., and BigCityLit.com, and essays addressing contemporary poetics, which may be found in the South Carolina Review.	Vol. 33.1.F2000
Sinclair, Bennie Lee	Interviewee	See Jack Shuler, "An Interview with Bennie Lee Sinclair"	[1939-2000] A Greenville, South Carolina native, Bennie L. Sinclair was born in 1939.  Her poetry is centered around her rural upbringing, with "Little Chicago Suite" and "The Arrowhead Scholar" being her two most popular volumes.  She has taught creative writing at Furman University as well as led workshops at Notre Dame, Western Carolina University, and Brevard College. Sinclair became South Carolina's Poet Laureate for life by Governor Richard W. Riley in 1986, and her awards include a Stephen Vincent Benét Narrative Poem Award, a "Best American Short Stories" Citation, a South Carolina Writers' Award and special recognition from the South Carolina Society of Professional Journalists. Sinclair also wrote a novel, The Lynching, based on South Carolina's last lynching in 1947.  She passed away in 2000.	Vol. 34.2.S2002
Solotaroff, Robert	Interviewer	An Interview with Robert Stone	Robert Solotaroff is a Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Minnesota and the author of the Twayne Series studies of Bernard Malamud (1989) and Robert Stone (1994).  He earned his A.M. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1962 and 1969 respectively.  Among his many interests, Solotaroff writes the program notes for the chamber music group The Bakken Trio and also serves as an instructor at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI), where he has presented lectures on the Chekhov plays Uncle Vanya and The Cherry Orchard among others.  He is currently working on a study of Charles Baxter.	Vol. 26.1.F1993
Stern, Richard	Interviewee	See James Schiffer, "An Interview with Richard Stern"	[1928- ] Richard Gustave Stern was born in 1928 in New York city.  He was educated at the University of North Carolina (B.A., 1947), Harvard University (M.A., 1949), and the University of Iowa (Ph.D., 1954). From 1955, he taught writing and literature at the University of Chicago. In 1949, he taught as a Fulbright Scholar in Versailles, France. Stern received the Medal of Merit for the Novel (1985), which is awarded to a novelist every six years by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among his many other awards is the Heartland Award for the best work of non-fiction which Stern received for his memoir, Sistermony, published in 1995.  Other recent publications include Almonds to Zhoof: Collected Stories (2005), Noble Rot: Stories 1949-1988 (1993), and Golk (1960).	Vol. 25.2.S1993
Stone, Robert	Interviewee	See Robert Solotaroff, "An Interview with Robert Stone"	[1937- ] Born in Brooklyn in 1937, Robert Stone is a novelist known for his political, psychological and dark humor-style of writing.  After dropping out of high school in 1954, Stone enlisted in the Navy and worked as a journalist, and he eventually worked as a copyboy for the New York Daily News in the 1960's. Stone published his first novel, A Hall of Mirrors, in 1967, which won a William Faulkner Foundation award for best first novel. He later won the 1975 National Book Award for Dog Soldiers, which was also made into a film.  Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties (2007) is Stone's recent memoir about the turbulent 60's and its counterculture, and includes pieces about Stone's days in the Navy, insights about Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, and ends with his correspondent days in Vietnam. Stone currently resides in New York with his wife and two children.	Vol. 26.1.F1993
Taylor, Henry	Interviewee	See Hank Nuwer, "Comes A Horseman-Poet: An Interview with Henry Taylor"	Henry S. Taylor was born in rural Loudon County, Virginia.  In 1965 Taylor graduated from the University of Virginia and later received his MFA from Hollins University (formerly Hollins College) in 1966. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for his book A Flying Change, and he currently teaches literature and co-directs the MFA program at American University.	Vol. 27.1/2.F1994/S1995
Thomas, Aeronwy	Interviewee	See Peter Thabit Jones, "An Interview with Aeronwy Thomas"	Author of 2003's Christmas in the Boathouse, Aeronwy Bryn Thomas is perhaps best known as the daughter of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. Born in London in 1943, Thomas is patron of the Dylan Thomas Society. Aeronwy has been the leading figure in the movement to honor the memory of Dylan Thomas. She is also the President of the Alliance of Literary Societies.	Vol. 39.1 F2006
Tillinghast, David	Interviewee	See Jack Shuler, "An Interview with David Tillinghast"	David Tillinghast is a retired Professor of English who spent most of his career teaching at Clemson University.  His publications span a variety of genres and have appeared in magazines such as Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, Wisconsin Review, Georgia Review and Kentucky Poetry.  His prizes include winning the South Carolina Fiction Project and receiving the John Atherton Scholarship at the Breadloaf Writer’s Conference.  His collection of poetry entitled Women Hoping for Rain and Other Poems was published by State Street Press in 1987.	Vol. 32.2.S2000
Truesdale, Vance	Interviewer	"I do it all because I love to do it": Donald Hall at Clemson	Vance Truesdale has spent time teaching Linguistics at Clemson University.  He holds degrees from LSU and the University of South Carolina.  He is currently researching language problems in mathematical communication.	Vol. 22.1.F1989
Van Cleave, Ryan G.	Interviewer	On the Extraterrestrial Highway: An Interview with Jarret Keene	Ryan Van Cleave is a writer who has spent time teaching Creative Writing at Clemson University, Florida State University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.  He has published widely in a variety of magazines, including The Boston Review, The Christian Science Monitor, The Iowa Review, The Missouri Review, Ploughshares, The Progressive, and TriQuarterly.	Vol. 35.2 S2003
Vonnegut, Kurt	Interviewee	See Hank Nuwer, "A Skull Session with Kurt Vonnegut Fiction"	[1922-2007] Indiannapolis native Kurt Vonnegut was born in 1922, on Armistice Day.  Vonnegut, who first became interested in writing at his high school paper, was persuaded to study chemistry and biology in 1940 upon his enrollment to Cornell University.  Vonnegut left Cornell in 1942, moving on briefly to Carnegie Institute of Technology before enlisting in the US Army.  On December 14, 1944, Vonnegut was captured in the Battle of the Bulge, and was held as a POW in Dresden.  He waited out his captivity under a slaughterhouse, later taken back to America in 1945.  Vonnegut's short stories earned him the reputation of a science-fiction writer, a title he worked hard to shed as early sales of his novels were dissapointing. During the 1960s, Vonnegut's writing became more popular, particularly with the publication of Slaughterhouse Five, his sixth novel.  The author continued to write until his death in 2007.	Vol. 19.2.S1987
Wakoski, Diane	Interviewee	See Deborah Gillespie, "An Interview with Diane Wakoski"	[1937- ] A California native, Diane Wakoski  received a bachelor's degree in English from the University of California at Berkeley and has published more than forty collections of poems, including the four-book series "The Archaeology of Movies and Books." Her collection of poetry entitled Emerald Ice: Selected Poems 1962-1987 (1988), won the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award. She has also published four books of essays, and her prizes include a Fulbright fellowship, a Michigan Arts Foundation award, and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Michigan Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts. She has taught at Michigan State University since 1976 and currently lives in East Lansing.	Vol. 38.1.F2005
Walcott, Derek	Interviewee	See Sharon L. Jones, "An Interview with Derek Walcott"	[1930- ] Born in Catries, St. Lucia in 1930, Derek Walcott attended St. Mary's College in Saint Lucia and then later, the University of the West Indies in Jamaica. Maintaining an interest in poetry, he published his first collection 25 Poems in 1948. He moved to Trinidad in 1953, and broke through nine years later with his renowned collection entitled In a Green Night (1962). Walcott's writing honors include the 1992 Nobel Prize for Literature, the Guinness Award for Poetry, a Royal Society of Literature Award, the Cholmondeley Prize, the Welsh Arts Council International Writers Prize, a five-year fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation in 1981, and the Queens Medal for Poetry in 1988. He serves as an honorary member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and splits his time between teaching Literature and Creative Writing at Boston University with his home in Trinidad.	Vol. 30.1.F1997
Walker, Elinor Ann	Interviewer	An Interview with Richard Ford	Elinor Ann Walker lives in Florence, Alabama and has writted a Twayne Series edition on Richard Ford (2000).	Vol. 31.2.S1999
Walker, Meredith	Interviewer	"I do it all because I love to do it": Donald Hall at Clemson	Meredith Walker holds degrees from the University of South Carolina and Western Carolina University, where she is writing her dissertation on Jane Austen, Maria Edgeworth, and Susan Ferrier.	Vol. 22.1.F1989
Walker, Percy	Interviewee	See Jan Nordby Gretlund, "Interview with Percy Walker in His Home in Covington, Louisiana, January 2, 1981"	[1916-1990] Originally trained as a medical doctor, Walker Percy has come to be renowned as a respected American author and thinker. Born in Birmingham Alabama in 1916, Percy's early life was marred with his father's suicide and his mother's accidental death in an automobile incident.  Percy then relocated to Greenville, Mississippi, where he began to cultivate his writing talents. In 1934, Walker enrolled in the University of North Carolina studying Chemistry, and eventually went on to Medical School at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he received his Medical Degree in 1941. As a pathologist in New York, Walker contracted tuberculosis, which gave him three years of convalescence where he developed his writing interests further.  His book The Moviegoer received the National Book Award for fiction in 1962, and his later book, The Second Coming, received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a National Book Critics Circle citation, an American Book Award nomination, a Notable Book citation from the American Library Association, and a P.E.N./Faulkner Award. Percy died from cancer at age 74 in May of 1990.	Vol. 13.2.S1981
Wallace-Crabbe, Chris	Interviewee	See Robert Hahn, "'Working with the Whole Surface': A Conversation with Chris Wallace-Crabbe"	[1934- ] An Australian poet born in 1934, Chris Wallace-Crabbe was born outside of Melbourne in the suburb of Richmond.  He attended Scotch College, Yale University, and the University of Melbourne, where now serves as Professor Emeritus in the Australian Centre. He has also spent time as a Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University and at the University of Venice, Ca'Foscari. His career includes work as an essayist, a critic, and a public reader of his own poetry, the most recent collection of which, By and Large, was published by Carcanet Press in 2001.	Vol. 37.1.F2004
Whitehouse, Sheila Austin	Interviewer	An Interview with Pattiann Rogers	Shelia Austin Whitehouse lives in Hyannis, Massachusettes, where she produces the poetry series "Baydreams" for cable television.	Vol. 25.1.F1992
Wilbur, Richard	Interviewee	See Willard Pate, "Interview with Richard Wilbur"	[1921- ] A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry, Richard Wilbur began life as a son of artists.  He was born in New York City in 1921, but his family soon relocated to North Caldwell, New Jersey in 1923, a more rural setting that later influenced his more pastoral poetry.  Upon entering Amherst College in 1938, Wilbur became embroiled in politics and was elected chairman of the school newspaper.  His academic studies were paused upon his enrollment in World War II, yet he eventually returned to Harvard Graduate School, ultimately earning his M.A. in 1947, and joining Harvard's faculty in 1950.  At the age of 26, Wilbur published his first book of poetry The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems in 1947, and with his 1956 publication Things of This World, he won his first Pulitzer Prize, as well as a National Book Award. Wilbur recieved his second Pulitzer Prize later in life, for New and Collected Poems (1989), making him the only living American poet to have won the award twice. He divides his time between Cummington, Massachusets and Key West, Florida.	Vol.   3.1.F1970
Will, George	Interviewee	See Larry Chappell, "An Interview with George Will"	George F. Will is one of the most recognized writers in the world, due mostly to his staggering amount of exposure; Will is featured in more than 450 newspapers, a biweekly Newsweek column and appearances as a political commentator on ABC. Born in Champaign, Ill., Will attented Trinity College in Hartford, Oxford Unversity, and Princeton University and has taught Political Philosophy at Michigan State University and the University of Toronto.  Branching out of academia, Will spent time on the staff of U.S. Sen. Gordon L. Allott (R-Colo.) before launching his journalism career.  He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his newspaper columns, and has earned several awards for his Newsweek columns, including a 1980 Silurian Award for Editorial Writing and the 1978 National Headliners Award.  He has published several editions of his Newsweek and newspaper columns as well as several critically acclaimed books.	Vol. 29.1.F1996
Wolfe, Fred	Interviewee	See Richard J. Calhoun, "'Tom, Are You Listening?' -- An Interview with Fred Wolfe"	In 1974, Fred Wolfe was interviewed as the last surviving member of Thomas Wolfe's immediate family.  He died in 1980.	Vol.   6.2.S1974