Elisabeth Muhlenfeld Editor & Author

Mary Chesnut's Civil War journals were published posthumously as Mary Chesnut's Civil War. Elizabeth Hanson (d. 1999) was the author of The American Indian in American Literature: A Study in Metaphor; Forever Thero; Race and Gender in Contemporary Native American Fiction; and the biographies Paula Gunn Allen and Margaret Mitchell. Elisabeth Muhlenfeld is President of Sweet Briar College, Mary Chesnut's biographer, and the coeditor of The Private Mary Chesnut: The Unpublished Civil War Diaries.