Ed Folsom

Ed Folsom has been a central figure in the study of Walt Whitman for several decades. He has pioneered the online study of Whitman by co-directing the Walt Whitman Archive (whitmanarchive.org), an open resource that makes available a vast collection of Whitman's work, including his manuscripts, letters, marginalia, scribal documents, photographs, and translations, as well as his published works in their various editions. Folsom also has been the editor of the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review--the international journal of Whitman Studies--since 1983, and he edits the Whitman Series at the University of Iowa Press, where over 25 books on Whitman have been published. Folsom has authored, edited, or co-edited over a dozen books dealing with Whitman. He is the Roy J. Carver Professor of English at The University of Iowa.