Janet Groth, Emeritus Professor of English at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, has also taught at Vassar, Brooklyn College, the University of Cincinnati, and Columbia. She was a Fulbright lecturer in Norway and a visiting fellow at Yale and is the author of "Edmund Wilson: A Critic for Our Time" (for which she won the NEMLA Book Award) and coauthor of "Critic in Love: A Romantic Biography of Edmund Wilson". She lives in New York City.