Randolph Paul Runyon, professor emeritus at Miami University and a native of Kentucky, is the author of Order in Disorder (on Montaigne), Intratextual Baudelaire, Ghostly Parallels: Robert Penn Warren and the Lyric Poetic Sequence, The Braided Dream: Robert Penn Warren's Late Poetry, Delia Webster and the Underground Railroad, and books on La Fontaine, Montesquieu, and Raymond Carver.