David RifeDavid Rife is Professor Emeritus in English at Lycoming College in Williamsport, PA, where he taught American literature and modern fiction for 35 years. He is a founding Associate editor of Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz and Literatue, and his writings have appeared in such publications as American Literary Realism, Annual Review of Jazz Studies, Journal of Modern Literature and Dictionary of Literary Biography. Read More Read Less