Samuel Pickering, JR.

SAMUEL PICKERING, JR., teaches English at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of critical books on evangelical religion and the novel and on John Locke and eighteenth-century children's books. Two books of his familiar essays have been published, A Continuing Education and The Right Distance, recently published by the University of Georgia Press. He is now completing another collection of essays called May Days.

- The Best American Essays 1987 (p. 317). Ticknor & Fields.