Lucy Conniff completed her transcription of Thomas Wolfe's autobiographical outline while a college student at the University of Chicago. She lives in New York City.

Richard S. Kennedy (1920-2003) was a professor emeritus of English at Temple University, the biographer of Thomas Wolfe and E. E. Cummings, and the author or editor of numerous other literary works, including Welcome to Our City and The Starwick Episodes, by Thomas Wolfe.