Ford Madox Ford, born Ford Hermann Hueffer, was born in 1873 in Surrey, England. He collaborated with Joseph Conrad on The Inheritors and other books, and prolifically published poetry, criticism, and fiction throughout his lifetime. He founded the English Review in 1908 and later edited the Transatlantic Review, publishing Joyce, Hemingway, and Pound, among others. He died in 1939. Max Saunders is Professor of English at King's College London, where he teaches nineteenth- and twentieth-century British, American and European literature. He is the author of the two-volume Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life and the editor of Ford's Selected Poems and War Prose, also available from NYU Press.