Author: Alex Vernon

Alex Vernon is a professor of English at Hendrix College in Arkansas. His Hemingway and war studies titles are Hemingway”s Second War: Bearing Witness to the Spanish Civil War and Soldiers Once and Still: Ernest Hemingway, James Salter, and Tim O”Brien. He has also edited essay volumes on war literature in general, on teaching the works of Tim O”Brien, and on the war memoir. He has published two soldiering memoirs of his own with Kent State University Press—The Eyes of Orion: Five Tank Lieutenants in the Persian Gulf War (1999) and Most Succinctly Bred (2006).