CHARLES NEWMAN (1938-2006) was an alumnus of Yale and Oxford. From 1964-75 he taught at Northwestern University where he founded and edited the literary journal TriQuarterly. Subsequently he taught at Johns Hopkins University and Washington University in St. Louis. He was a recipient of Fulbright, Guggenheim, Rockefeller and National Endowment grants, as well as the Zabel award for A Child's History of America. His novels include New Axis, The Promisekeeper, There Must be More to Love than Death, and White Jazz. He was also well known for the Marxist anthology Literature in Revolution (1972), which he edited with George Abbott White.
