Alex Vernon
Alex Vernon is an Associate Professor of English at Hendrix College in Arkansas. He is the author of two memoirs, most succinctly bred and The Eyes of Orion: Five Tank Lieutenants in the Persian Gulf War, two books of literary criticism/history, Soldiers Once and Still: Ernest Hemingway, James Salter, and Tim O'Brien and Hemingway's Second War: Bearing Witness to the Spanish Civil War, the cultural study On Tarzan; and two edited collections, Arms and the Self: War, the Military, and Autobiographical Writing and Approaches to Teaching the Works of Tim O'Brien.