Lawrence Howe is professor of English and Film Studies at Roosevelt University. He is the author of Mark Twain and the Novel: The Double-Cross of Authority (2009).

James E. Caron is professor of English at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. He is the coeditor of Sut Lovingood's Nat'ral Born Yarnspinner: Essays on George Washington Harris (1996) and author of Mark Twain, Unsanctified Newspaper Reporter (2008).

Benjamin Click is Chair of the English Department at St. Mary's College of Maryland and Director of the Twain Lecture Series on American Humor Culture.