A History of American Working-Class Literature

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Nicholas Coles is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh where he teaches and writes about literacy and pedagogy working-class literature detective fiction and climate change. He is co-editor of Working Classics: Poems on Industrial Life (with Peter Oresick 1990) For a Living: The Poetry of Work (with Peter Oresick 1995) and American Working-Class Literature: An Anthology (with Janet Zandy 2007). A former president of the Working-Class Studies Association Coles is a regular writer on Working-Class Perspectives. Paul Lauter was Smith Professor of Literature at Trinity College Connecticut until his retirement. He is general editor of the ground-breaking Heath Anthology of American Literature (2005). Recent books include From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park (2001) and Literature Class and Culture (with Ann Fitzgerald 2000). Active in civil rights feminist peace and labor movements Lauter worked for social cause organizations including the American Friends Service Committee was a founder of The Feminist Press served as union official at the State University of New York and co-authored a book about the 1960s The Conspiracy of the Young (with Florence Howe 1970). He was also president of the American Studies Association.