Paul John Eakin
Paul John Eakin is Ruth N. Halls Professor Emeritus of English at Indiana University. He is the author of How Our Lives Become Stories: Making Selves, also from Cornell, The New England Girl: Cultural Ideals in Hawthorne, Stowe, Howells, and James, Fictions in Autobiography: Studies in the Art of Self-Invention, Touching the World: Reference in Autobiography. He is the editor of On Autobiography by Philippe Lejeune and American Autobiography: Retrospect and Prospect.