Steven Moore (PhD Rutgers, 1988) is the author of the two-volume survey The Novel: An Alternative History, the second volume of which won the Christian Gauss Award for excellence in literary scholarship. He has written widely on William Gaddis and other modern authors, and for decades reviewed new books for the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and other periodicals. Between 1988 and 1996 he was managing editor of Dalkey Archive Press /Review of Contemporary Fiction, the subject of his memoir Dalkey Days, also available from Zerogram Press.