Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: A Norton Critical Edition

About Frederick Douglass

William L. Andrews is E. Maynard Adams Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is general editor of Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography and The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology and co-editor of The Oxford Companion to African American Literature and The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. Other works include the Norton Critical Edition of Up From Slavery; The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt; To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro- American Autobiography 17601865; Sisters of the Spirit; The Curse of Caste by Julia C. Collins; Life of William Grimes the Runaway Slave; and Slave Narratives after Slavery. William S. McFeely is Abraham Baldwin Professor of the Humanities Emeritus at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Yankee Stepfather: General O. O. Howard and the Freedmen; Grant: A Biography for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Parkman Prize; Frederick Douglass which received the Lincoln Prize; Sapelos People: A Long Walk into Freedom; and Proximity to Death.