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Ford Madox Ford was an influential editor, essayist, critic, poet, and novelist. The author of more than 80 books, including "The Fifth Queen," "The Good Soldier," "It Was the Nightingale," ""and "Provence," he not only collaborated with Joseph Conrad, but also befriended many of the best writers of his time: Henry James, H. G. Wells, Stephen Crane, and Thomas Hardy. Ford also founded the "English Review"--discovering D. H. Lawrence, Wyndham Lewis, and Ezra Pound--and the "transatlantic review" in Paris--taking on Ernest Hemingway as a subeditor and publishing the works of James Joyce and Gertrude Stein. Joseph Wiesenfarth is professor emeritus of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of "Ford Madox Ford and the Regiment of Women: Violet Hunt, Jean Rhys, Stella Bowen, and Janice Biala" and "Gothic Manners and the Classic English Novel" and the editor of "History and Representation in Ford Madox Ford's Writings." He lives in Madison, Wisconsin.