Janet Groth, Emeritus Professor of English at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, has also taught at Vassar, Brooklyn College, the University of Cincinnati, and Columbia. She was a Fulbright lecturer in Norway and a visiting fellow at Yale and is the author of EDMUND WILSON: A CRITIC FOR OUR TIME (for which she won the NEMLA Book Award) and coauthor of CRITIC IN LOVE: A ROMANTIC BIOGRAPHY OF EDMUND WILSON. She lives in New York City.