The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction, Compact 8th Edition
ANN CHARTERS (Ph.D., Columbia University) is a professor of English at the University of Connecticut and has taught courses in the short story for over thirty years. A preeminent authority on the Beat writers, Charters has written a critically acclaimed biography of Jack Kerouac; compiledBeats & Company, a collection of her own photographs of Beat writers; and edited the best-sellingPortable Beat Reader. Her published books includeThe Kerouac Reader,Selected Letters of Jack Kerouac, 1957-1969,Beat Down to Your Soul, andThe Portable Sixties Reader. Her other textbooks with Bedford/St. Martin's includeThe American Short Story and Its Writer, andLiterature and Its Writers, co-edited with Samuel Charters.