Dale Salwak is Professor of English Literature at Southern California's Citrus College, USA. His 28
books include Living with a Writer (2004), Teaching Life: Letters from a Life in Literature
(2008), Writers and Their Mothers (2019), and studies of Kingsley Amis, John Braine, A. J.
Cronin, Philip Larkin, Barbara Pym, Carl Sandburg, Anne Tyler, and John Wain. He is a recipient
of Purdue University's Distinguished Alumni Award as well as a research grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities. He is also a frequent contributor to the (London) Times Higher
Education magazine and the Times Educational Supplement.