Jerry Griswold is a specialist in Children's Literature and in American Literature and Culture. The author of seven books, he has published more than 200 essays in the national press (The Nation, Paris Review, New Republic, and elsewhere); he is a frequent contributor to the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. Besides a book critic and cultural commentator, Griswold was a university professor at San Diego State University, UCLA, UCSD, the University of Connecticut, and the National University of Ireland in Galway. The former Director of the National Center for the Study of Children's Literature, Griswold now lectures all over the globe (from Seoul to Salamanca to São Paolo). You can keep up with his recent publications and future travels at his website: http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~jgriswol/