CONTRIBUTOR:

Kevin J. Hayes

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Emeritus Professor

DEPARTMENT:

English

INSTITUTION:

University of Central Oklahoma

BIOGRAPHY:

Kevin J. Hayes, Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Central Oklahoma, now lives and writes in Toledo, Ohio. He is the author of several books, including George Washington, A Life in Books; The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson; and A Journey through American Literature, all published by Oxford University Press. Another one of his works, The Library of William Byrd of Westover, received the Virginia Library History Award presented by the Library of Virginia and the Virginia Center for the Book.