GUY DAVENPORT was a writer, illustrator, teacher, and scholar. He is best known for his modernist-style short stories, but his range of works is wide, spanning poetry, translation, and criticism. He was a professor of English for three decades, having taught at Haverford College and the University of Kentucky.

ERIK REECE, himself a student of Davenport and now his literary executor, is also the author of Lost Mountain, An American Gospel and Field Work.