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Linda Wagner-Martin (also published as Linda W. Wagner) is Frank Borden Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature emerita at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA.

She has been a Guggenheim fellow, a Rockefeller fellow, the Bunting Institute fellow, as well as the recipient of a senior National Endowment for the Humanities grant, as well as grants from the ACLS and other funding agencies. She is the author or editor of more than 75 books in American literature, and has served on the editorial boards of a dozen academic journals. She edited The Centennial Review, and co-edited The Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing in the United States and its anthology. She was the editor for the Contemporary Section of the Heath Anthology of American Literature. The recipient of many teaching awards at both University of North Carolina and Michigan State University, she was awarded the Hubbell Medal for Lifetime Achievement in American Literary Studies.

Among her recent books are John Steinbeck, A Literary Life; Hemingway’s Wars: The Public and Private Battles; Toni Morrison and the Maternal (second expanded edition), and Maya Angelou, A Biography.