Issue 15

Contributors

Ronald Austin, a Hollywood writer and producer for many years, now teaches screenwriting at the University of Southern California . His essay “A Loving Glance: James Agee and the Movies” appeared in the Spring 1994 issue of Image.

Suzanne U. Clark has published a chapbook, Weather of the House, a nonfiction book Blackboard Blackmail, and poems in anthologies (In Place and Words and Quilts) and journals. A part-time teacher of English at King College in Bristol , Tennessee , she has also published poems and essays in The Writing Room, a book on the craft of writing fiction and poetry.

Theodore Deppe has published the collection of poems Children of the Air and has published poems in Harper's, Poetry, Kenyon Review, and other journals. He works as an RN in a children's hospital and is a recent recipient of an NEA grant. His two poems in this issue have just been published by Alice James Books in his new collection The Wanderer King.

Elizabeth Dewberry has published two critically acclaimed novels: Many Things Have Happened Since He Died and Break the Heart of Me, which was a Literary Guild Alternate Selection. Both novels were originally published under the name Elizabeth Dewberry Vaughn. She has written two plays: Head On and Flesh and Blood. Her third novel, How to Get to the Magic Kingdom , is forthcoming from Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. She lives in Lake Charles , Louisiana , with her husband Robert Olen Butler.

William A. Dyrness is the dean of Fuller Theological Seminary's School of Theology and a professor of theology and culture there. His published books include Rouault: A Vision of Suffering and Salvation, Christian Art in Asia , Daniel in the Television Den: A Christian Approach to American Culture, and Invitation to Cross-Cultural Theology: Case Studies in Vernacular Theology.

Ted L. Estess, who conducted our interview with Elie Wiesel, is dean of the Honors College and member of the English faculty at the University of Houston . He has written a book of literary criticism entitled Elie Wiesel (available from the Continuum Publishing Group), as well as scholarly articles dealing with Wiesel and other twentieth-century writers. In support of conducting the interview with Elie Wiesel, Estess received a travel grant from the University of Houston .

Harold Fickett, one of the founders of Image, has written three novels—Holy Fool, First Light, and Daybreak—and the critical biography Flannery O'Connor: Images of Grace. His essay in this issue is excerpted from his upcoming book on parables.

Jeffrey Harrison is the author of The Singing Underneath (Dutton, 1988), selected by James Merrill for the National Poetry Series, and Signs of Arrival, just out from Copper Beech Press. His poems have appeared in the New Yorker, New Republic , The Nation, Poetry, and Paris Review.

Brother Aidan Hart is a monk of the Greek Orthodox church, and an iconographer. Before becoming an iconographer, he was a full-time sculptor. His articles on art and cosmology have appeared in Modern Painters and other British journals, as well as in American, Greek, and Italian journals. His hermitage is in the west of England, in Shropshire .

Edward Hirsch has written four critically acclaimed volumes of poetry, all published by Knopf. His second book, Wild Gratitude, won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and his first, For the Sleepwalkers, was nominated for the award. His most recent book of poems is Earthly Measures. A leading poet of his generation, Hirsch publishes in periodicals such as the New Yorker and Paris Review. He is a professor of English at the University of Houston .

Christine Lehner is the author of the novel Expecting, published by New Directions. She has contributed writing to New Directions Anthology, Chelsea, North American Review, and Agni Review. She lives in Hastings-on-Hudson with her two children, her husband, and her bulldog.

Michael McGirr, S.J., is the editor of Australian Catholics magazine and consulting editor of Eureka Street magazine. He works for Jesuit Publications in Melbourne , Australia.

Elie Wiesel, the winner of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize, is the author of more than forty critically acclaimed novels and nonfiction books, including Night, A Beggar in Jerusalem, and his recent memoir All Rivers Run to the Sea.

Gregory Wolfe is the founder and editor of Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion. He is the author of Malcolm Muggeridge: A Biography, to be published by Wm. B. Eerdmans in 1997. He and his wife Suzanne have also co-written the Simon & Schuster book Books That Build Character: A Guide to Teaching Your Child Moral Values through Stories. His essay in this issue is excerpted from his book, Sacred Passion: The Art of William Schickel, to be published by the University of Notre Dame Press in 1997.

Jill Peláez Baumgaertner, an English professor at Wheaton College and the poetry editor of the Christian Century magazine, has published the following books: Flannery O'Connor: A Proper Scaring, a college textbook/anthology entitled Poetry, and the poetry chapbook Leaving Eden.