Susan Kalter Editor

John Joseph Mathews (1895-1979), a mixed-blood Osage, was the author of Wah'Kon-Tah: The Osage and the White Man's Road; Talking to the Moon; Sundown; Life and Death of an Oilman: The Career of E. W. Marland; and Twenty Thousand Mornings: An Autobiography.

Susan Kalter is editor of Twenty Thousand Mornings, an autobiography by John Joseph Mathews, and Professor of American Literature and Native American Studies at Illinois State University.