Kennedy, J. Gerald: - J. Gerald Kennedy is Boyd Professor of English at Louisiana State University.?He is the author of?Imagining Paris: Exile, Writing, and American Identity?and coeditor (with Jackson R.?Bryer) of?French Connections: Hemingway and Fitzgerald Abroad.?He was advisory editor of?volumes 1-3?of the?Letters of Ernest Hemingway, ?under the general editorship of Sandra?Spanier, and he is coediting a forthcoming volume of?Hemingway?letters, ?the final years.?He?is also the author of a number of essays on Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and expatriate Paris, and he?edited?Modern American Short Story Sequences: Composite Fictions and Fictive Communities.?His publications on nineteenth-century American literature?include?Poe, Death, and the Life of Writing?and (with fellowship support from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the NEH) a wide-ranging cultural history, ?Strange Nation: Literary Nationalism and Cultural Conflict in the Age of Poe.