Robert W. Hamblin is professor emeritus of English and founding director of the Center for Faulkner Studies at Southeast Missouri State University. He has authored or edited multiple books, including Myself and the World: A Biography of William Faulkner; Critical Essays on William Faulkner; and Living in Mississippi: The Life and Times of Evans Harrington, all published by University Press of Mississippi. Ann J. Abadie (1939-2024) was associate director emerita of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi as well as coeditor of numerous scholarly collections from the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference and other books published by University Press of Mississippi.