Robert McParland is professor of English and chair of the Department of English at Felician University. His books include Beyond Gatsby: How Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Writers of the 1920s Shaped American Culture, Citizen Steinbeck: Giving Voice to the People, From Native Son to King's Men[these could, alternately be enclosed in quotation marks and kept italicized]: The Literary Landscape of 1940s America, and Bestseller: A Century of America's Favorite Books.