Edward A. Shannon

Biographical Sketch: Edward Shannon is Professor of Literature at Ramapo College of NJ, where he teaches courses in American Literature and the Humanities. He has published on Woody Guthrie, Mark Twain, and Patricia Highsmith. He also writes about American comic strips, including Art Spiegelman’s Maus, Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo, and Robert Crumb’s autobiographical comics and is the author of The Prentice Hall Pocket Guide to Writing about Literature. He was named a 2005 Woody Guthrie Fellow by the Woody Guthrie Foundation and 2020 Quarry Farm Fellow by the Center for Mark Twain Studies. His essay, “’Trash of the Veriest Sort’: Huck Finn’s Missing Sex Life” has been accepted for an upcoming issue of the Mark Twain Annual. He lives in Warwick, NY with his wife Kathleen (an organizer for a faculty union!), his son Patrick, and several four-legged creatures. His older son Denis is a librarian in New York state.