SAMUEL PICKERING, JR., teaches English at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of critical books on evangelical religion and the novel and on John Locke and eighteenth-century children’s books. Two books of his familiar essays have been published, A Continuing Education and The Right Distance, recently published by the University of Georgia Press. He is now completing another collection of essays called May Days.
– The Best American Essays 1987 (p. 317). Ticknor & Fields.