Robert J. Norrell (Editor)
ROBERT J. NORRELL is a native of Hazel Green, Alabama. He holds the Bernadotte Schmitt Chair of Excellence at the University of Tennessee. After earning a BA and PhD at the University of Virginia, Norrell taught at Birmingham-Southern College and the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. His 2009 biography, Up from History: the Life of Booker T. Washington, was received with national acclaim. In 2005 he published a well-reviewed interpretation of US race relations, The House I Live In: Race in the American Century. His Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award in 1986. He is the author of seven additional books and twenty scholarly articles. Eden Rise is his first work of fiction.

Andrew H. Myers (Editor)
Andrew H. Myers is Professor of American Studies at the University of South Carolina Upstate. He is author of Black, White & Olive Drab: Racial Integration at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and the Civil Rights Movement (2006). He has contributed essays to Military Culture and Education (2011); Recovering the Piedmont Past: The South Carolina Upcountry during the Nineteenth Century (2013); and Citizen Scholar: Essays in Honor of Walter Edgar (2016). He also has written a chapter for the forthcoming Recovering the Piedmont Past II: Bridging the Centuries in the South Carolina Upcountry, 1877–1941, which he is co-editing with Timothy P. Grady.