NED STUCKEY-FRENCH was Professor of English at Florida State University and book review editor of Fourth Genre. He is the author of The American Essay in the American Century (Missouri), co-editor of Essayists on the Essay: Montaigne to Our Time (Iowa), and co-author of Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft (Longman, 8th edition). His articles and essays appeared in journals and magazines such as In These Times, The Missouri Review, The Iowa Review, Walking Magazine, culturefront, Pinch, Guernica, middlebrow, and American Literature, and have been listed five times among the notable essays of the year in Best American Essays. He received the 2020 Stand UP Award from the Association of University Presses for his advocacy.