Summer 1990

Edwin M. Yoder Jr. is a native of Greensboro, North Carolina, educated at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) and Oxford University, England, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He has worked for newspapers in North Carolina and Washington, DC, where he was associate editor and editorial page editor of the Washington Star (1975-1981). He won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 1979. From 1991 to 2002 he was professor of Journalism and humanities at Washington and Lee University. He was a regular contributor to Book World, the book supplement of the Washington Post.

Hardy C. Wilcoxon has resided in China and Hong Kong and wrote about Vietnam for VQR following his time there. A graduate of Amherst and Yale University where he received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in English, he is a former Fulbright lecturer at the Beijing Foreign Studies University.