David Rife

David Rife is Professor Emeritus in English at Lycoming College in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, where he taught American literature and modern fiction for 35 years. His writings have appeared in such publications as American Literary Realism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing. A long-time associate editor of Brilliant Corners:  A Journal of Jazz & Literature, he is co-editor (with Sascha Feinstein) of The Jazz Fiction Anthology, and author of Jazz Fiction:  A History and Comprehensive Reader’s Guide and, most recently (December 2022), Jazz Fiction:  Take Two.  In deep retirement, he divides his time between Florida and Pennsylvania while working on a study of the Ojibwe Indian in American fiction.