Contributors' Notes
EDITORIAL BOARD
Director
Peter O'Malley
Coordinating Editor & Director
DeWitt Henry
Editorial Staff
Henry Bromell
David Gullette
Ellen Wilbur
Contributing Editors
Geoffrey Clark
James Randall
Barry Spacks
Art Director
David Omar White
CONTRIBUTORS
ANDRE DUBUS teaches at Bradford College, has a novel,
The Lieutenant, has had many distinguished short stories in
The New Yorker, North American Review, Sewanee Review, Ploughshares (1/4) and elsewhere, and will soon be bringing out a collection from David R. Godine.
GEORGE GARRETT has published four volumes of poetry, four collections of short stories, five novels, three movies and a play; and he has taught at Wesleyan, Princeton, Rice, The University of Virginia and other schools. His highly praised
Death of The Fox was published in 1971, and his most recent book is
The Magic Striptease (1973). He lives in York Harbor, Maine.
DEWITT HENRY is co-founder and director of
Ploughshares, former Prose Writer in Residence at Emerson College, and working to complete a novel. His short stories will appear in upcoming issues of
Aspect and
Harbinger, and "An Interview With Richard Yates" (with Geoff Clark) in
The Transatlantic Review.
JAMES ALAN McPHERSON is a short story writer and journalist. He is the author of a collection of stories,
Hue and Cry, and has published in several magazines. He is presently at work on a novel.
BRIAN MOORE lives in Malibu, California, and teaches at UCLA. The story here is reprinted by permission of Collins-Knowlton-Wing, Inc., ©1961 by Brian Moore, and is of particular interest since, as he writes, "I used it as a springboard, in part, for the writing of
An Answer From Limbo, and actually put a couple of paragraphs of it into the novel."
TIM O'BRIEN is a national affairs reporter for
The Washington Post and has written fiction and articles for
Playboy, Redbook, The New Republic and
Penthouse. His war memoir,
If I Die In A Combat Zone (Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence) was selected by
The New York Times as one of 1973's most noteworthy books. Next year, Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence will publish the novel excerpted here.
FRED PFEIL is a former Creative Writing Fellow at Stanford, has published in
Place, and has a collection of small-town stories looking for a publisher. He lives in Palo Alto, California.
MARGARET ROBISON is in the Writing Program at U. Mass. (Amherst), and has published poetry in little magazines. This excerpt from a novel in progress is her first published fiction.
MEGAN STAFFEL just graduated from the BFA Program at Emerson College and will enter Brown's Writing Program this fall. This is her first publication.
CARLA TOMASO just finished her MFA at Boston University, where this story won the Gerald Warner Brace Prize. She is a Ploughshares First.
SCOTT TUROW was one of the winners of the 1970 Book-of-the-Month-Club Award, has been a Creative Writing Fellow at Stanford, and now teaches there. His short stories have appeared in
The Transatlantic Review, articles and reviews in
The San Francisco Chronicle, Place and elsewhere, and he has recently completed a novel,
The Way Things Are, now making the rounds.
JAMES WHITEHEAD teaches at the University of Arkansas, has a book of poems,
Domains (1966), and a novel
Joiner (1971). He has been interviewed at least twice (in George Garrett's
The Writer's Voice and John Carr's
Kite-Flying And Other Irrational Acts), held a Guggenheim, and is a member of The National Council on the Arts. A sequel to
Joiner, Boykin Flying, is in progress and a new book of poems will be out soon.
RICHARD YATES was interviewed in
Ploughshares 1/3 (see above). He is the author of
Revolutionary Road (1961),
A Special Providence (1969), and is completing a new novel,
Disturbing The Peace, for Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence. The story here, previously unpublished, belongs to the period of his collection
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness (1962, o.p.) and is set in 1952 during the call up of the Sixth Fleet to counter Russian maneuvers in the Mediterranean - an American strategy and presence unpopular with the French.