Ann Charters Author & Editor

Ann Charters, Storrs, Connecticut, is professor emeritus of English at the University of Connecticut, where she taught for more than thirty years. She is the author and editor of numerous books on writers of the Beat Generation, including Beat Down to Your Soul: What Was the Beat Generation?, The Portable Beat Reader, and Kerouac: A Biography.|Samuel Charters, the eminent historian of jazz and blues music, is the author of A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz (University Press of Mississippi), the award-winning The Roots of the Blues, and numerous other titles.