Jackson R. Bryer is professor emeritus of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is editor of Conversations with Lillian Hellman and Conversations with Thornton Wilder and coeditor of Conversations with Sam Shepard, Conversations with August Wilson, and Conversations with Neil Simon, in the University Press of Mississippi's Literary Conversations Series.

Sherrill Grace is professor emerita in English and Killam University Professor at the University of British Columbia. Winner of many awards, including the Order of Canada, she is author of Tiff: A Life of Timothy Findley, as well as books and articles on Malcolm Lowry, Margaret Atwood, Tom Thomson, and Sharon Pollock as well as on biography, autobiography, memory and war, and the Canadian North.