Madeleine B. Stern is a partner in the New York rare book firm of Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern. Joel Myerson is a professor of English at the University of South Carolina. The three have coedited several books about Alcott and her work, including The Selected Letters of Louisa May Alcott and The Journals of Louisa May Alcott, both published by the University of Georgia Press.