Distinguished Professor of English at Texas A&M University, Jerome Love is the author of several volumes, including Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself (California, 1999), Lost in the Customhouse: Authorship in the American Renaissance (1993), and Emily Dickinson: The Poet on the Second Floor (1986). He edited Frank Norris' McTeague (1995), Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1990), and George Washington Whitman's Civil War Writings (1975).