Edward Gibbon
Patricia B. Craddock is an American author and professor of English. She is a noted expert on the historian Edward Gibbon, the author of "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". Craddock has published a two-volume biography, "Young Edward Gibbon: Gentleman of Letters" (Johns Hopkins, 1982) and "Edward Gibbon: "Luminous" Historian" (Johns Hopkins, 1989).