Editor:
Robert K. Elder is a journalist, author and the editor of Hemingway in Comics, which started out as a series for The Comics Journal and the Hemingway Review. Elder previously co-authored one other Hemingway book: Hidden Hemingway: Inside the Ernest Hemingway Archives of Oak Park.
His previous 11 books include Last Words of the Executed, The Best Film You’ve Never Seen and The Film That Changed My Life. Elder’s work has appeared in The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Salon.com, The Oregonian and many other publications.
A Montana native, Elder lives and writes in Chicagoland. He serves as the Chief Digital Officer for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
Contributors:
Brian Azzarello wrote the foreword for this volume. He is the Eisner Award-winning writer of such titles as 100 Bullets, Wonder Woman, Joker, and Batman: Damned, among other acclaimed titles.
Jace Gatzemeyer recently graduated with his PhD in English from Penn State and has been serving as an adjunct lecturer at various Nebraskan institutions of higher learning, including his alma mater, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Born and raised in rural Nebraska, Jace’s primary research interest is in the early twentieth century’s modernist literary movement its intersections with regional, rural, and otherwise spatially-peripheral forms of writing. He has been published in The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, The Hemingway Review, Midwestern Miscellany, and other academic journals.
Sean C. Hadley received his PhD at Faulkner University through the Great Books Honors College. In addition to his essay in Hemingway in Comics, his writings have been included in American Religious Belief: Belief and Society through Time (ABC-CLIO, 2021), Moral Theology and the World of Walt Disney (Lexington Books and Fortress Academic, 2021) and The Hemingway Review (Spring 2021).
He first encountered Hemingway under Allen Josephs at the University of West Florida. Comic books, on the other hand, have been a reading staple all his life. He has given talks on a range of topics, including Ernest Hemingway, Batman, Umberto Eco, C. S. Lewis, Ancient Roman history, Neil Gaiman, and Hans-Georg Gadamer. When not typing away at his next project, he can be found enjoying his time alongside his wife and children.
Sharon Hamilton has taught classes on literature at universities in Italy, Austria, Canada, and the United States, including at Georgetown University. Her other most recently published work on Hemingway appears in Teaching Hemingway and Modernism. In addition to literature, she has taught past classes on drama, the visual arts, and poetry.
