Jerome Loving

JEROME LOVING, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at Texas A&M, is the author of a number of biographies and critical studies in American literature, including "Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself" (1999), "The Last Titan: A Life of Theodore Dreiser" (2005), and "Mark Twain: The Adventures of Samuel L. Clemens" (2010), all published by the University of California Press. His most recent book, "Jack and Norman: A State-Raised Convict and the Legacy of Norman Mailer's "'The Executioner's Song'" (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's), was published in February, 2017. He has been a Fulbright scholar in the former Soviet Union and in France, where he also taught as a visiting professor at the Sorbonne. His fellowships include a Guggenheim and a “We the People” grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities.