Richard B SchwartzRichard B. Schwartz is the author/editor of 29 books. Dean of the College of Arts and Science and Professor of English emeritus in the distinguished creative writing program at the University of Missouri, Columbia, he has also taught at the United Sttes Military Academy, the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Georgetown University. An acclaimed memoirist and creator of the Jack Grant, Tom Deaton, and Gwen Harrison crime fiction series, he is also an authority on Samuel Johnson and eighteenth-century intellectual and social history as well as a top 500 reviewer, Vine Voice and Top Contributor in Philosophy for Amazon.com. Visit him at www.richardbschwartzbooks.com. Read More Read Less