Robert Allen Papinchak, a former university English professor, is an award-winning freelance book critic in the Los Angeles area. Read More His reviews appear in The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, The Los Angeles Times, World Literature Today, The Times Literary Supplement, Asymptote, Shelf Awareness, The Gay & Lesbian Review, The National Book Review, and elsewhere, including newspapers, literary journals, and online. His short fiction was nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and received an honorable mention from STORY. He was named runner-up finalist for the Kukula Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Book Reviewing by The Washington Monthly. His critical essays on mystery writers appeared in Scribner’s two-volume Edgar Award–winning Mystery & Suspense Writers. He is the author of a biographical/critical study, Sherwood Anderson: A Study of the Short Fiction.