Jay Watson, Oxford, Mississippi, USA is Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies and professor of English at the University of Mississippi. He is the editor of Conversations with Larry Brown and coeditor of Faulkner and Whiteness (University Press of Mississippi).

James G. Thomas, Jr, Oxford, Mississippi, is associate director for publications at the University of Mississippi's Center for the Study of Southern Culture. He is editor of Conversations with Barry Hannah (University Press of Mississippi) and an editor for the twenty-four-volume New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.