D. Quentin MillerD. Quentin Miller is the author, editor, or co-editor of ten books, most recently The Routledge Introduction to African American Literature (2016), 'A Criminal Power': James Baldwin and the Law (2012), and Prose and Cons: Essays on Prison Literature n the United States (2005). Forthcoming books include Understanding John Edgar Wideman and James Baldwin in Context. He has also published more than two dozen articles or chapters on contemporary literature. Moreover, he is a fiction writer and plans to write a memoir / intellectual history of the 1980s as a companion to this volume. Read More Read Less