Dale Salwak is Professor of English Literature at Southern California's Citrus College, USA. His 28books include Living with a Writer (2004), Teaching Life: Letters from a Life in Literature(2008), Writers and Their Mothers (2019), and studies of Kingsley Amis, John Braine, A. J.Cronin, Philip Larkin, Barbara Pym, Carl Sandburg, Anne Tyler, and John Wain. He is a recipientof Purdue University's Distinguished Alumni Award as well as a research grant from the NationalEndowment for the Humanities. He is also a frequent contributor to the (London) Times HigherEducation magazine and the Times Educational Supplement.