Author Biography

Jane E. Aaron is a professional writer and editor as well as an experienced teacher. She is the author of the best selling Little, Brown Handbook and coeditor of the best-selling Bedford Reader. She has served as consultant, editor, or writer on more than a dozen other textbooks for the first-year composition.Ellen Kuhl Repetto (M.A., University of Massachusetts Boston) is an editor and writer who has contributed to more than twenty composition readers, handbooks, and rhetorics. She is the author of The Bedford/St. Martin's Textbook Reader, The Compact Reader 10e, and Common Threads.