The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature

James D. Hart was Professor of American Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, Director of the Bancroft Library and author of The Popular Book and A Companion to California. Wendy Martin is Professor of American Literature and American Studies at Claremont Graduate University where she has been Chair of the English Department; Vice Provost and Founding Director of Transdisciplinary Studies; and Director of the Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards. The author of numerous articles and books on American Women Writers and American Literature and Culture, Professor Martin founded and continues to edit Women's Studies; An Interdisciplinary Journal. Her books include An American Triptych: The Lives and Work of Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson and Adrienne Rich; We Are the Stories We Tell: Best Short Fiction by North American Women Writers Since 1945; Colonial American Travel Narratives; The Art of the Short Story; Ihe Cambridge Introduction to Emily Dickinson, and many others. Danielle Hinrichs is Associate Professor of Academic Writing at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, MN where she has directed the general education writing program. She is Program Coordinator for Minnesota Writing and English (MnWE), a regional conference for faculty in writing and English. She has contributed to The Heath Anthology of American Literature and Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature and is co-Editor, with Wendy Martin, of The Art of the Short Story: An Anthology.