William B. Thesing is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at the University of South Carolina where he taught for over thirty years. He holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in English from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. He has authored or edited fifteen books, and served as editor of the James Dickey Newsletter from 2003-2008. In 1980, his book The London Muse won the SAMLA Studies Book Award. His co-edited (with Theda Wrede) collection of essays, The Way We Read James Dickey, is forthcoming.