
                 ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND EDITORS OF THIS GUIDE

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                       ABOUT THE AUTHOR OF THIS GUIDE

Elizabeth Poe, Assistant Professor of English Education at the University
of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, taught high school English for 13 years in
Jefferson County, Colorado. She received her B.A. in English and psychology
from Pitzer College in Claremont, California, her M.A. in English from
Colorado State University in Fort Collins, and her Ph.D. in Curriculum and
Instruction from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

She is currently the President of NCTE's Assembly on Literature for
Adolescents (ALAN), Book Review Editor for The ALAN Review. She is author
of Focus on Sexuality: A Reference Handbook (ABC-CLIO, 1990) a nonfiction
book for teens which includes extensive annotated bibliographies of young
adult literature dealing with teenage sexuality.

                      ABOUT THE EDITORS OF THIS GUIDE

Currently Professor and Chairperson of Education at the University of North
Carolina at Asheville, Arthea (Charlie) J. S. Reed has taught for 20 years
on both the high school and college level. She received her A.B. (Bethany
College) and her M.S. (Southern Connecticut State University) in English
and her Ph.D. (Florida State University) in Teacher Education. In addition
to teaching, Charlie was The ALAN Review (NCTE) editor from 1984 to 1990
and served as Co-Director of the Mountain Area Writing Project (a part of
the National Writing Project) from 1982 to 1988. She is also the author of
Reaching Adolescents: Young Adult Books and the Schools (Holt, 1985),
Comics to Classics: A Parent's Guide to Books for Teens and Preteens (IRA,
1988), and Point-Counterpoint: An Introduction to Education (Dushkin,
1991).

W. Geiger (Guy) Ellis, Professor Emeritus at the University of Georgia,
Department of Language Education, received his A.B. and M.Ed. degrees from
the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) and his Ed.D. from the
University of Virginia. For over 25 years Guy has been active in teaching
adolescent literature in the classroom and in training future teachers in
its use, lecturing and writing extensively on the subject. He developed and
edited The ALAN Review from 1978 to 1984, changing its focus from a
newsletter to a fully referred journal with an emphasis on articles with
research and instructional significance. His research has had heavy
emphasis on the content of literature instruction.

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