About the Editors
Ralph H. Orth, Professor of English at the University of Vermont, edited three volumes of The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Harvard University Press, 1960-1982) and is the general editor for a forthcoming edition of Emerson's topical notebooks, to be published by the University of Missouri Press.
Albert J. von Frank, Associate Professor at Washington State University, is the author of The Sacred Games: Provincialism and Frontier Consciousness in American Literature, 1630-1860 (Cambridge University Press, 1985) and is the general editor for a forthcoming complete edition of Emerson's sermons, also to be published by the University of Missouri Press.
Linda Allardt, Assistant Professor English at the University of Rochester, edited volume 12 and was the senior editor for volume 15 of the Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks and is also the author of two books of poetry.
David W. Hill, Associate Professor of SUNY-Oswego, coedited volume 15 of the Journals of Miscellaneous Notebooks and has pubished several articles, including one in Emerson Centenary Essays, edited by Joel Myerson (Southern Illinois University Press, 1982).