Jean W. Cash

Jean W. Cash is professor emerita of English at James Madison University, where she taught a variety of courses in southern literature for thirty-eight years. She is author of Flannery O’Connor: A Life and Larry Brown: A Writer’s Life, the latter published by University Press of Mississippi; coeditor with Keith Perry of Larry Brown and the Blue-Collar South and Rough South, Rural South: Region and Class in Recent Southern Literature; and coeditor with Richard Gaughran of Twenty-First-Century Southern Writers: New Voices, New Perspectives, all published by University Press of Mississippi. She has also published a number of essays on southern writers and given numerous conference presentations. Her most recently published essay is on the novels of Ann Patchett.