Sanford Pinsker is the author and editor of more than a dozen books, including book-length studies of Philip Roth, Cynthia Ozick, Joseph Heller, and J. D. Salinger. He also has published more than 800 articles, essays, editorials, and book reviews, frequently contributing to Georgia Review, Sewanee Review, and VQR. He recently retired after 37 years of teaching at Franklin and Marshall College. He now lives in south Florida, where he writes about American literature and culture on cloudy days.

Also In VQR

• Is "Higher Education" an Oxymoron?
• Climbing Over the Ethnic Fence: Reflections on Stanley Crouch and Philip Roth
• Henry Adams At Ground Zero
• Newspaper Pieces Between Hard Covers
• Huckleberry Finn and the Problem of Freedom
• Was Ralph Waldo Emerson Our First Motivational Speaker?
• A Land Where Jollity and Gloom Still Contend
• American Literature and America, 1925?2000
• Walt Whitman and Our Multicultural America
• Race In America, Or Where Liberalism Went Wrong