Robert L. McLaughlin

Robert L. McLaughlin, Professor of English at Illinois State University, earned his Ph. D. at Fordham University in New York City. He is the author most recently of Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical (UP of Mississippi, 2016). With Sally E. Parry he wrote We'll Always Have the Movies: American Cinema during World War II (UP of Kentucky, 2006). He has published many articles on postmodern fiction, especially the work of Thomas Pynchon and David Foster Wallace. He has edited a fiction collection, Innovations: An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Fiction (Dalkey Archive Press, 1998). From 1993 to 2005 he was editor of the Review of Contemporary Fiction. With Sally E. Parry, he is currently completing a study of Broadway plays during World War II.