Joseph M Flora Editor & Author

JOSEPH M. FLORA is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of literary studies of Vardis Fisher, William Ernest Henley, Frederick Manfred, and Ernest Hemingway and editor of The English Short Story, 1880-1945 (1985). With Robert Bain, he coedited Southern Writers: A Biographical Dictionary (1979) and Fifty Southern Writers before 1900 and Fifty Southern Writers after 1900 (both Greenwood Press, 1987).

ROBERT BAIN is Professor of English and Bowman and Gordon Gray Professor of Undergraduate Teaching (1987-90) at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His books include two works on H. L. Davis, also The Writer and the Worlds of Words (1975), and The Cast of Consciousness (1987), with Beverly Taylor. With Joseph M. Flora, he was coeditor of the three reference books on Southern writers mentioned above.