MICHAEL ROSENTHAL was Associate Dean of Columbia College for seventeen years. His rich career includes winning a Guggenheim Fellowship, becoming the first holder of the Roberta and William Campbell Professor of the Humanities, and earning Columbia College's Alexander Hamilton medal, its highest honor. His books include Virginia Woolf; The Character Factory--Baden Powell's Boy Scouts and the Imperatives of Empire; Nicholas Miraculous: The Amazing Career of the Redoubtable Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler; and Barney: Grove Press and Barney Rosset, America's Maverick Publisher and His Battle Against Censorship. Rosenthal received a B.A from Harvard and his PhD in English from Columbia. He lives on New York's Upper West Side where, with his wife, Judith, they raised their three sons.