About the Author

Robert DiYanni is Professor of English at Pace University, Pleasantville, New York, where he teaches courses in literature, writing, and humanities. He has also taught at Queens College of the City University of New York, at New York University in the Graduate Rhetoric Program, and most recently in the Expository Writing Program at Harvard University. He received his B.A. from Rutgers University (1968) and his Ph.D. from the City University of New York (1976).

Professor DiYanni has written articles and reviews on various aspects of literature, composition, and pedagogy. His books include The McGraw-Hill Book of Poetry;Women’s Voices; Like Season’d Timber: New Essays on George Herbert; and Modern American Poets: Their Voices and Visions (a text to accompany the Public Broadcasting Television series that aired in 1988). With Kraft Rompf, he edited The McGraw-Hill Book of Poetry (1993) and The McGraw-Hill Book of Fiction (1995). With Janetta Benton he wrote Arts & Culture: An Introduction to the Humanities (1998).