Nicholas G. Meriwether is an archivist at University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. He was formerly an archivist and oral historian at the South Caroliniana Library and one of the founders of the Simms Initiatives Project at the University of South Carolina. His work on Simms has appeared in the Simms Review, Studies in the Literary Imagination, and in William Gilmore Simms’s Unfinished Civil War, edited by David Moltke-Hansen, published by the University of South Carolina Press, as well as two introductions for the William Gilmore Simms reissue series by the University of South Carolina Press.
David W. Newton is a professor of English and department chair at the University of West Georgia, USA. His work on Simms has appeared in the Simms Review, Studies in the Literary Imagination, The Southern Quarterly, and in William Gilmore Simms and the American Frontier. He also has edited critical editions of The Forayers, Eutaw, and Katharine Walton. He lives in Carrollton, Georgia, USA with his wife, Karen, and their two daughters, Kelcy and Caroline.
