A Ph.D. of nineteenth-century British literature, Bob Davis has taught university English for over thirty-five years. In Manhattan now, he's a freelance editor and writer, language consultant for corporate and individual clients, and at New York University the creator and professor of a four-course writing curriculum for graduate students in the forty-five M.A. and M.S. professional studies programs. His published work includes instructor manuals for five college-level reading and writing anthologies, along with two volumes of literary criticism, style-diverse nonacademic prose, and poetry. He has been copy-chief for AOL Digital City New York, has development- and copy-edited over twenty volumes of literature for Houghton Mifflin's New Riverside Editions, edited online for The College Board and Pearson, and also edited for magazines, advertising agencies, architectural builders, and philanthropic foundations. He is in love with and loves his wife.