K. HendersonKATHERINE USHER HENDERSON is Professor of English and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Dominican College of San Raphael. The author of Joan Didion, she has published extensively on women's studies and contemporary writers. JOSEPH ANTHNY MAZZEO is Avalon Foundation Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at Columbia University. He is the author of eight books including Varieties of Interpretation, Renaissance and Revolution: The Remaking of European Thought, The Design of Life: Major Themes in Biological Thought. Read More Read Less