Edward McPherson, associate professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis, is the author of three books: Buster Keaton: Tempest in a Flat Hat (Faber & Faber), The Backwash Squeeze and Other Improbable Feats (HarperCollins), and The History of the Future: American Essays (Coffee House Press). He has written for the New York Times Magazine, the Paris Review, the American Scholar, the Gettysburg Review, Salon, Guernica, the Southern Review, and the New York Observer, among many others. Edward McPherson has received numerous awards and recognitions, including a Pushcart Prize, the PEN Southwest Book Award, the Gulf Coast Prize in Fiction, an Artist Fellowship from the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis, a Minnesota State Arts Board grant, and the Gesell Award from the University of Minnesota, where he received his MFA. He is a creative writing teacher and contributing editor of the Common Reader at Washington University.

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