About the Author

Timothy D. Whelan, a native of Independence, Missouri, graduated from Tennessee Temple University, Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1977. After completing his Ph.D. in Early American (Puritan) Studies, he came to Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia, where he is now a professor of American Literature. He has published on the early American poet Anne Bradstreet, as well as encyclopedia articles on numerous American religious figures.