Rodger L. Tarr is University Distinguished Professor of English, Emeritus, at Illinois State University. He is the editor of Short Stories by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and The Private Marjorie: The Love Letters of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings to Norton S. Baskin. Brent E. Kinser is professor of English studies at Western Carolina University. With Tarr, he is coeditor of Marge and Julia: The Correspondence between Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Julia Scribner Bigham and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's Cross Creek Sampler: A Book of Quotations.