Edwin Honig was born in New York City. He studied at Columbia, the University of Michigan, and the University of Wisconsin, where he took a B.A. in 1941 and an M.A. in 1947. He served in the U.S. Army, in the European Theatre, from 1942 to 1946. He has taught at New York University, Illinois Institute of Technology, University of New Mexico, Purdue University, Claremont College, and Harvard University, where he was Briggs-Copeland Assistant Professor of English. Since 1957 he has taught English at Brown University, where he has been director of writing (1960-1973) and chairman of the English department (1967-1968). Honig was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1947 and 1962 and a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Small Presses Award for Copper Beech Press in 1975. He received further fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts for Creative Writing in 1977 and from the National Endowment for the Humanities for...