Connie S ZitlowConnie S. Zitlow is the author of the Heinemann title Teaching the Selected Works of Walter Dean Myers (2007). A former English and music teacher, she is Professor Emeritus at Ohio Wesleyan University, where she taught courses in young adult literatue, content-area literacy, and secondary teaching methods and also served as Director of Adolescence to its Young Adult and Multi-Age Licensure Programs. She is the author of Lost Masterworks of Young Adult Literature (2002), and she has contributed chapters to Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the Classics, Volumes II, III, and IV, Rationales for Young Adult Literature, and Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Cope with Societal Issues. Young adult literature and its teaching are the focus of articles she has published in journals such as The ALAN Review and English Journal, for which she also edited the "Professional Links" column. Read More Read Less