Winter 1998

Leonard Kriegel was born in the Bronx, New York in 1933 and still lives and writes about the city. At the age of eleven, he contracted polio, which left him without the use of his legs. It also left him with a focus for his anger as well as a subject for his writing. It was the subject of his first book, The Long Walk Home (1964), and he was to return to it in two recent collections of essays, Falling into Life (1991) and Flying Solo (1999). His essays and stories have appeared in such magazine as Partisan Review, Sewanee Review, and Harper’s.

William Palmer is a professor of history at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. He is the author of “Sir Richard Southern Looks Back: A Portrait of the Medievalist as a Young Man,” published in the in 1998 and a forthcoming piece on “Professional Historians and Popular History.” He is also the author of (1993); (1994); and (2001), as well as over 20 articles in a variety of scholarly journals. He is married and has two sons.