James Plath

JAMES PLATH is the R. Forrest Colwell Endowed Chair and Professor of English at Illinois Wesleyan University, where he teaches American literature, journalism, film, and creative writing. He is the author of Historic Photos of Ernest Hemingway.

Plath earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1988 and is a former Fulbright teaching scholar at the University of West Indies in Barbados. Historic Photos of Ernest Hemingway won a USA Book News Best Books 2009 Award in the Biography/Historical category. He published the arts journal Clockwatch Review for 16 years and directed the Hemingway Days Writers' Workshop & Conference in Key West for ten years.

When he’s not writing, Plath serves as president of The John Updike Society and publishes poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, reviews, and literary criticism.

James Plath’s books are published by Turner Publishing.

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