Louis D. Rubin Jr.
Louis D. Rubin, Jr., has been an author, an editor, a publisher, an artist, a newspaperman, and a university professor during his distinguished career. Rubin has served as chancellor of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, president of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature, and chairman of the American Literature Section of the Modern Language Association. Cofounder of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, he has written and edited more than fifty books, including most recently The Summer the Archduke Died: Essays on Wars and Warriors, Where the Southern Cross the Yellow Dog: On Writers and Writing, and My Father's People: A Family of Southern Jews. He lives near Pittsboro, North Carolina.
