Sophie Vallas, Aix-en-Provence, France, teaches at Aix-Marseille Universite, France. She has published essays on several American novelists including Paul Auster, Chester Himes, J. D. Salinger, Flannery O'Connor, Jim Harrison, Don DeLillo and Colum McCann. She is the author of "Jerome Charyn et les siens: Autofictions".