Literature: The Human Experience: Reading and Writing Paperback - 2012

Marvin Klotz (PhD, New York University) is a professor of English emeritus at California State University, Northridge, where he taught for thirty-three years and won Northridge's distinguished teaching award in 1983. He is also the winner of two Fulbright professorships (in Vietnam and Iran) and was a National Endowment for the Arts Summer Fellow twice. In addition to editing "Literature: The Human Experience" and several other textbooks, he coauthored a guide and index to the characters in Faulkner's fiction.Samuel Cohen (PhD, City University of New York) is Associate Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Missouri. He is the author of "After the End of History: American Fiction in the 1990s," co-editor (with Lee Konstantinou) of "The Legacy of David Foster Wallace," Series Editor of The New American Canon: The Iowa Series in Contemporary Literature and Culture, and has published in such journals as "Novel, Clio, Twentieth-Century Literature, The Journal of Basic Writing, " and "Dialogue: A Journal for Writing Specialists." For Bedford/St. Martin's, he is author of "50 Essays: A Portable Anthology" and coauthor of "Literature: The Human Experience.""