Gloria L. Cronin is professor of English at Brigham Young University, Professor Cronin studied English literature at Canterbury University, NZ during the years it was affiliated with Cambridge University. She studied American literature and Folklore at Brigham Young University. She was born in New Zealand and holds US citizenship. Her fields of interest include African-American, Jewish-American, and contemporary American literature, postcolonial and post-imperial Anglophone literatures, postcolonial theories, postmodern theory, and gender theory. Executive Coordinator: American Literature Association (ALA). Professor Cronin also organizes ALA Symposia. Editor: Saul Bellow Journal. Her book-length publications include: A Room of His Own: In Search of the Feminine in the Novels of Saul Bellow (2001); Small Planets: Saul Bellow as a Short Ficiton Writer (1998), Cronin and Gerhard Bach, eds. Zora Neale Hurston: Critical Essays (1998), Cronin, ed.; Conversations with Saul Bellow (1994), Tales of Molokai (1992); Saul Bellow: A Mosaic (1992), Goldman, Cronin, and Aharoni, eds.; Sixty Other Jewish Fiction Writers: An Annotated Bibliography (1991) awarded the Pozner Bibliography Prize by the Association of Jewish Libraries, 1992; Jerzy Kozinski: An Annotated Bibliography (1989); Saul Bellow in the 1980s (1989); Saul Bellow: An Annotated Bibliography, vols. 3 (1987) and 4 (2000); and the forthcoming Jewish American and Holocaust Literature: A Late Twentieth-Century Look.

Blaine H. Hall is professor emeritus of library science at Brigham Young University, where he was the English and American Literature and Language Librarian from 1972 to1996. He received an MA in American Literature (1965) and an MLS in Library Science (1971) from Brigham Young University, where he was on the English faculty from 1963 to 1972. He was the editor of the award-winning Utah Libraries, the journal of the Utah Library Association, and a recipient of their Distinguished Service Award in 1989. He also edited The Mountain Plains Library Association Newsletter and received their Distinguished Service Award in 1991. He served as president of these two associations as well as a member of the American Library Association Council from 1988–92. He received the BYU Library’s first annual Faculty Professionalism Award in 1991 for professional contributions and service to the library, and the BYU School of Library and Information Sciences Alumni Award for service in state professional associations (1991). He is the author, co-author, compiler, or editor of the following books: Collection Assessment Manual for College and University Libraries (1985), Saul Bellow: An Annotated Bibliography, 2nd ed. (1987), Jerzy Kosinski: An Annotated Bibliography (1991), Jewish American Fiction Writers: An Annotated Bibliography (1991), which was awarded the Pozner Judaica Bibliography Award in 1991, and Conversations with Grace Paley (1997). He remains actively involved in researching for the Bellow bibliography and researching and writing personal and family history. He is also listed in Who’s Who in the West, 1995–present, and Who’s Who in America, 1996–present.