ERNEST LOCKRIDGE has published novels, memoirs and literary criticism. His books have appeared in hardcover and paperback editions. One of his novels was optioned by Hollywood; another was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. His writings about literature appear in The Sewanee Review, Modern Fiction Studies, The Journal of Narrative Technique, The Hemingway Review, and in anthologies. His "Othello as a Key to Hemingway" is anthologized in The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 308 (2005). He is Editor of Twentieth-Century Interpretations of The Great Gatsby. Lockridge received his Ph.D. from Yale University and became a member of its faculty, serving for eight years; then was hired by The Ohio State University where he was promoted to full professor. Lockridge received The O.S.U. Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching, the University's premier teaching award, and is currently Professor Emeritus of English and Creative Writing at Ohio State.