Candace R. Craig is a creative writer, free-lance editor, and the author of several teacher guides on British and American works of literature, including The Great Gatsby, 1984, and the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, with more to come. Candace began teaching secondary English courses in 2000, drawing upon her previous professional experience as an elementary-school teacher and her committed intellectual work as a double-masters student in Curriculum & Instruction and in English Literature.