Laurence Lerner has taught at the University of Sussex and has served as the Edwin W. Mims Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, from which position he recently retired. He has written a number of important works, including "The Frontiers of Literature" (Blackwell, 1988), "Love and Marriage: Literature and Its Social Context" (St. Martin's, 1979), and a collection of poems, "Rembrandt's Mirror" (Vanderbilt, 1987).
