Edmund Wilson, one of America's finest critics and essayists, served as associate editor of The New Republic and then book editor on The New Yorker. He is the author of numerous books, among them Axel's Castle, To the Finland Station, and Upstate: Records and Recollections of Northern New York (Syracuse University Press).
Joseph Mitchell is the author of McSorley's Wonderful Saloon, Old Mr. Flood, and The Bottom of the Harbor.
William N. Fenton is the author of The False Face of the Iroquois, The Roll Call of the Iroquois, The Iroquois Eagle Dance (Syracuse University Press), and editor of Parker on the Iroquois (Syracuse University Press).