Author Biography
Lawrence I. Berkove is a professor emeritus of English at the University of Michigan Dearborn. He is the editor of The Fighting Horse of the Stanislaus (Iowa), The Sagebrush Anthology: Literature from the Silver Age of the Old West, and The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain and coeditor of The Short Fiction of Ambrose Bierce, as well as numerous articles on Twain s major novels, short fiction, travel literature, religious values, and the Sagebrush School associates. Joseph Csicsila is a professor of English at Eastern Michigan University. He is the author of Canons by Consensus: Critical Trends and American Literature Anthologies, co-editor of Centenary Reflections on Mark Twain s No.44, The Mysterious Stranger, and of the Prentice Hall Anthology of American Literature, editor of The Gilded Age , and review editor of the Mark Twain Annual.
