Perry Carlton Lentz is undertaking his final year as Charles P. McIlvaine Professor of English at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Perry joined the Kenyon faculty in 1969, and has served as department chair and as director of the Kenyon Exeter Program, which he helped establish in 1974. He is the author of the novelsThe Falling Hills and It Must Be Now the Kingdom Coming and a scholarly study of literature, war and history, Private Fleming at Chancellorsville. Born in Anniston, Alabama in 1943, he attended preparatory school at Indian Springs School, in Helena, Alabama. Married to Jane Anderson in 1965, he has two daughters, Robin and Emily, and five grandchildren.