A Writer's Companion

Louis D. Rubin, Jr., the founder of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill and a founding member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, taught English and creative writing for many years, mainly at Johns Hopkins University, Hollins College, and the University of North Carolina. He has written or edited some forty-five books of his own, the most recent of which are The Heat of the Sun, The Edge of the Swamp, Small Craft Advisory, and The Mockingbird in the Gum Tree. His first novel, The Golden Weather, was reissued in the LSU Press paperback series Voices of the South. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and in his spare time pursues his interests in painting, boating, military history, and baseball.

Jerry Leath Mills is professor of English at the University of North Carolina. He is editor of Studies in Philology and a passionate hunter and angler.