John Cullen Gruesser's literary biography is an important addition to the reevaluation of this (turn-of-the-twentieth-century) era, in which the subject, Sutton E. Griggs, was a central figure.
John Cullen Gruesser is Senior Research Scholar at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, and a visiting fellow at the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A & M University. Prior to this, he taught at Kean University in New Jersey where he coordinated the M.A. in Liberal Studies program. He has been the president of the Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society, the New Jersey College English Association, and the Poe Studies
Association, which named him an Honorary Lifetime Member in 2020.