Robert L. McLaughlin, Professor of English at Illinois State University, earned his Ph. D. at Fordham University in New York City. With Sally E. Parry he wrote We'll Always Have the Movies: American Cinema during World War II (UP of Kentucky, 2006). In addition to his work on the popular culture of World War II, he has published many articles on postmodern fiction, especially the novels of Thomas Pynchon. He has edited a fiction collection, Innovations: An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Fiction (Dalkey Archive Press, 1998). From 1993 to 2005 he was editor of the Review of Contemporary Fiction. He is currently completing a book on the musicals of Stephen Sondheim and working with Sally E. Parry on a study of Broadway plays during World War II.