From Spring 1998 Explore This Issue on Robert Penn Warren: A Biography by Joseph Blotner By Hugh Ruppersburg From the Spring 1998 Issue Hugh Ruppersburg has just retired as Senior Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences and University Professor of English at the University of Georgia. He writes about American literature and film, especially of the American South. ← The Power of Witness (on Fruits of Sorrow: Framing Our Attention to Suffering by Elizabeth V. Spelman; Vigil by Alan Shapiro; Heaven’s Coast by Mark Doty; and This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death by Harold Brodkey) → on Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities by John M. Ellis