Robert S. Levine is Distinguished University Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the general editor of The Norton Anthology of American Literature and author, most recently, of The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson. He lives in Ellicott City, Maryland. Amy Hungerford (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins; Editor, 1945 to the Present) is the Ruth Fulton Benedict Professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University. She is a scholar of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature and the author of The Holocaust of Texts: Genocide, Literature, and Personification; Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion since 1960; and, most recently, Making Literature Now. She is a founder of the Post45 collective and site editor of the group's open access journal on post–1945 American literature and culture (post45.org). New to the Tenth Edition, GerShun Avilez (Ph.D. Pennsylvania; coeditor, 1945 to the Present) is Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism, winner of the MLA’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize for an outstanding Scholarly Study of Black American Literature or Culture, and of Black Queer Freedom. Avilez, whose research areas are African American/African diaspora, contemporary American literature, and LGBTQ studies, has taught at Yale University and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Robert S. Levine is Distinguished University Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the general editor of The Norton Anthology of American Literature and author, most recently, of The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson. He lives in Ellicott City, Maryland. Amy Hungerford (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins; Editor, 1945 to the Present) is the Ruth Fulton Benedict Professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University. She is a scholar of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature and the author of The Holocaust of Texts: Genocide, Literature, and Personification; Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion since 1960; and, most recently, Making Literature Now. She is a founder of the Post45 collective and site editor of the group's open access journal on post–1945 American literature and culture (post45.org). New to the Tenth Edition, GerShun Avilez (Ph.D. Pennsylvania; coeditor, 1945 to the Present) is Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism, winner of the MLA’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize for an outstanding Scholarly Study of Black American Literature or Culture, and of Black Queer Freedom. Avilez, whose research areas are African American/African diaspora, contemporary American literature, and LGBTQ studies, has taught at Yale University and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Robert S. Levine is Distinguished University Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the general editor of The Norton Anthology of American Literature and author, most recently, of The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson. He lives in Ellicott City, Maryland. Amy Hungerford (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins; Editor, 1945 to the Present) is the Ruth Fulton Benedict Professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University. She is a scholar of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature and the author of The Holocaust of Texts: Genocide, Literature, and Personification; Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion since 1960; and, most recently, Making Literature Now. She is a founder of the Post45 collective and site editor of the group's open access journal on post–1945 American literature and culture (post45.org). New to the Tenth Edition, GerShun Avilez (Ph.D. Pennsylvania; coeditor, 1945 to the Present) is Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism, winner of the MLA’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize for an outstanding Scholarly Study of Black American Literature or Culture, and of Black Queer Freedom. Avilez, whose research areas are African American/African diaspora, contemporary American literature, and LGBTQ studies, has taught at Yale University and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.