Jackson R. Bryer is professor emeritus of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is editor of Conversations with Lillian Hellman and Conversations with Thornton Wilder and coeditor of Conversations with August Wilson and Conversations with Neil Simon, all published in the University Press of Mississippi's Literary Conversations Series. Robert M. Dowling is professor of English at Central Connecticut State University. He is author of Eugene O'Neill: A Life in Four Acts, which was named a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for biography in 2015. Mary C. Hartig is coeditor of Conversations with August Wilson (published by University Press of Mississippi) and William Inge: Essays and Reminiscences on the Plays and the Man and coauthor of The Facts on File Companion to American Drama.