Richard Gaughran Editor

Jean W. Cash is professor emerita of English at James Madison University, where she taught a variety of courses in southern literature for thirty-seven years. She is author of biographies of Flannery O'Connor and Larry Brown and coeditor (with Keith Perry) of two previous collections of essays on Larry Brown and ""Rough South"" literature. She has also published a number of essays on southern writers and given numerous conference presentations.

Richard Gaughran is associate professor of English at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where he teaches American Literature and Film Studies. Recent publications include work on the Coen Brothers, an article on contemporary films of the American South, and another on Don DeLillo's The Names.