Authors
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Jerome Loving
Texas A&M University
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J. Michael Lennon
Wilkes University
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Keywords:
The Executioner's Song, true crime narrative, Naturalism, capital punishment, fiction and nonfiction, Gary Gilmore, Theodore Dreiser
Abstract
An interactive roundtable discussion, including audience participation, that focuses on the receptions and controversies surrounding An American Tragedy and The Executioner’s Song in which a number of comparisons are made in analyzing the respective writers and their concern with the topic of executed murderers.
Author Biographies
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Jerome Loving, Texas A&M University
Jerome Loving is a biographer of Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, and Theodore Dreiser, is working on a book tentatively entitled “State-Raised Convict: Jack Henry Abbott and the Legacy of The Executioner’s Song.” He is Distinguished Professor of English at Texas A&M University.
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J. Michael Lennon, Wilkes University
J. Michael Lennon is Emeritus Professor of English at Wilkes University. In 2007 he co-authored with Mailer On God: An Uncommon Conversation, and in October 2013, his authorized biography, Norman Mailer: A Double Life, was published by Simon & Schuster. His edition of Mailer’s selected letters will be published by Random House in December 2014.
