Jerome Loving is the author of "Lost in the Customhouse: Authorship in the American Renaissance" (1993), "Emily Dickinson: The Poet on the Second Story" (1986), "Emerson, Whitman, and the American Muse" (1982), and "Walt Whitman's Champion: William Douglas O'Connor" (1978). He is the editor of Frank Norris's "McTeague" (1995), Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" (1990), and "Civil War Letters of George Washington Whitman" (1975).