Richard Slotkin

Richard Slotkin is Olin Professor Emeritus of American Studies at Wesleyan University. His most recent book is No Quarter: The Battle of the Crater, 1864. He is the author of an award-winning trilogy on the Myth of the Frontier in American culture: Regeneration Through Violence, The Fatal Environment, and Gunfighter Nation; and of Lost Battalions: The Great War and the Crisis of American Nationality. He has also published three historical novels: The Crater, The Return of Henry Starr and Abe: A Novel of the Young Lincoln. He has twice been a finalist for the National Book Award (1973, 1993), and has won the Beveridge Award (American Historical Association, 1973), Little Big Horn Associates Literary Prize (1985), and Shaara Prize for Civil War fiction (2001).