Louisiana native Margaret Donovan Bauer is a professor of English at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, where she was named the first Ralph Hardee Rives Chair of Southern Literature. She is the author of The Fiction of Ellen Gilchrist and William Faulkneras Legacy: aWhat Shadow, What Stain, What Mark.a Her articles on southern literature have appeared in Mississippi Quarterly, Southern Literary Journal, Southern Studies, College Language Association Journal, and Studies in Short Fiction, as well as in several edited volumes. Since 1997 she has served as editor of the North...