Sally Wolff, who earned her doctorate in English from Emory University, has taught and served in the administration there for forty-five years. She previously has published four books about southern literature and several others about Emory University history. Her earlier book about William Faulkner, Ledgers of History: William Faulkner, an Almost Forgotten Friendship, and an Antebellum Plantation Diary, has been called "one of the most exciting literary finds in recent history" and "a major discovery in Faulkner scholarship."
