John Seelye is a graduate research professor of American literature at the University of Florida. He is the author of The True Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain at the Movies, Prophetic Waters- The River in Early American Literature, Beautiful Machine- Rivers and the Early Republic, Memory's Nation- The Place of Plymouth Rock, and War Games- Richard Harding Davis and the New Imperialism. He is also the consulting editor for Penguin Classics in American literature.