Harriet Pollack, professor emerita of English at Bucknell University, is coeditor of Eudora Welty and Politics: Did the Writer Crusade? and editor of Having Our Way: Women Rewriting Tradition in Twentieth-Century America.

Christopher Metress is Associate Provost for Academics at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, and is the editor of The Lynching of Emmett Till: A Documentary Narrative and The Critical Response to Dashiell Hammett.