The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction (Shorter Twelfth Edition)
Linda Peterson (Ph.D., Brown                 University), General Editor, is a professor of                   English at Yale  University and has published widely on nonfiction prose, notably women’s              autobiography and Victorian  narrative. She has                   been  co-director of the Bass Writing Program at            Yale since 1979 and has served as  president of                   the Council of  Writing Program  Administrators.John Brereton (Ph.D., Rutgers University) is a Professor of English, Emeritus, at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Previously he served as Executive Director of the Calderwood Writing Initiative at the Boston Athenæum. He has taught writing at Harvard University, Wayne State University, Brandeis University, and the City University of New York. His scholarship focuses on the history of teaching English literature and composition.