Jay Watson, Oxford, Mississippi, is Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies and professor of English at the University of Mississippi. He directs the annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, and his many publications include Fifty Years after Faulkner, Faulkner's Geographies, Faulkner and Whiteness, and Conversations with Larry Brown, all from University Press of Mississippi.
James G. Thomas, Jr, Oxford, Mississippi, is associate director for publications at the University of Mississippi's Center for the Study of Southern Culture. He is editor of Conversations with Barry Hannah; coeditor of several Faulkner volumes, including Faulkner and History; and associate editor of The Mississippi Encyclopedia, all published by University Press of Mississippi.
