Marion Montgomery is a poet, novelist, and critic who taught English at the University of Georgia for more than thirty years. His most recent books include "With Walker Percy at the Tupperware Party: in Company with Flannery O'Connor, T. S. Eliot, and Others" and "Hillbilly Thomist: Flannery O'Connor, St. Thomas and the Limits of Art", as well as "On Matters Southern: Essays About Literature and Culture, 1964-2000".