Edward Cifelli is a retired professor of American Literature. He has written literary biographies of poets David Humphreys and John Ciardi and is completing a new book on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...view moreEdward Cifelli is a retired professor of American Literature. He has written literary biographies of poets David Humphreys and John Ciardi and is completing a new book on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He has also edited collections of poems, essays, and letters, and introductions, afterwords, and prefaces for the Signet Classics editions on Dante, Milton, and Longfellow. He wrote a memoir Random Miracles that was published in 2011—and he spent 13 years as the movie critic for a daily newspaper, the New Jersey Herald.view less