Literature: The Human Experience: Reading and Writing
RICHARD ABCARIAN (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is a professor of English emeritus at California State University, Northridge, where he taught for 37 years. During his teaching career, he won two Fulbright professorships. In addition to editingLiterature: The Human Experienceand its compact edition, he is the editor of a critical edition of Richard Wright'sA Native Son, as well as several other literature textbooks.MARVIN KLOTZ (Ph.D., New York University) is a professor of English emeritus at California State University, Northridge, where he taught for 33 years and won Northridge's distinguished teaching award in 1983. He is also the winner of two Fulbright professorships (in Vietnam and Iran) and was a National Endowment for the Arts Summer Fellow twice. In addition to editingLiterature: The Human Experienceand several other textbooks, he coauthored a guide and index to the characters in Faulkner's fiction.SAMUEL COHEN (Ph.D., City University of New York) is an assistant professor in the English Department at the University of Missouri where he won the 2008 Provost’s Outstanding Junior Faculty Teaching Award. He is the author ofAfter the End of History: American Fiction in the 1990s(University of Iowa Press, 2009) and has published in such journals asNovel,Clio,Twentieth-Century Literature,The Journal of Basic Writing, andDialogue: A Journal for Writing Specialists. His other book for Bedford/St. Martin’s is50 Essays: A Composition Anthology, now in its second edition.