George Perkins’s most recent book is Stones Stand, Waters Flow, a memoir and history. Forthcoming is the 12th edition of The American Tradition in Literature, written with Barbara Perkins, fifty years in print and one of the favorite college textbooks of all time. Others include The Reader’s Encyclopedia of American Literature, Women’s Work, and Contemporary American Literature. He has taught in the United States, Scotland, Australia, and China, and has been a Senior Fulbright Fellow at the University of Newcastle in Australia and Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. He and Barbara are honored in the name of The Society for the Study of Narrative Literature’s annual Perkins Prize for the Best Book in Narrative Studies. For additional information see www.georgeperkins.net.