Charles DefantiCharles DeFanti taught English at Kean University for 36 years and has served for decades on the board of directors for the New York University Biography Seminar. He is a long-time resident of Greenwich Village, where he breathed the same air as Edwad Dahlberg, and has enjoyed many of the same persons and places as the old curmudgeon.DeFanti was a close friend of Edward Dahlberg for the last four years of Dahlberg's life, conducted hundreds of interviews for this book, and has written an Afterword for this edition. Read More Read Less