Fred Hobson is the author of numerous books in American and southern studies, including Tell About the South: The Southern Rage to Explain and Mencken: A Life. His essays have appeared in many magazines and journals, including the Atlantic Monthly, New York Times Book Review, Times Literary Supplement, Southern Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review. He is Lineberger Professor in the Humanities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and coeditor of the Southern Literary Journal.
