Sally Wolff-King teaches Southern Literature and Native American Literature. She is the author of Ledgers of History: William Faulkner, an Almost Forgotten Friendship, and an Antebellum Plantation Diary, Talking About William Faulkner (L.S.U. Press, 1996), and the coeditor of Southern Mothers: Fact and Fiction in Southern Women's Writing (L.S.U. Press, 1999), as well as numerous articles on southern literature.