J. Gerald Kennedy is Boyd Professor of English at Louisiana State University. He is regarded as one of the foremost scholars of nineteenth and twentieth century American short fiction and an expert on the works of Poe, Hemingway, Stein, and Fitzgerald. His other books include A Historical Guide to Edgar Allan Poe, The Portable Edgar Allan Poe, and Imagining Paris: Exile, Writing, and American Identity.
Poe’s prose prompts professor’s presentation (The Advocate)
