Thomas Ruys Smith

Lecturer in American Literature and Culture at the University of East Anglia. Author of River of Dreams: Imagining the Mississippi Before Mark Twain (Louisiana State University Press, 2007), Southern Queen: New Orleans in the Nineteenth Century (Continuum, 2011), and editor of Blacklegs, Card Sharps and Confidence Men: Nineteenth-Century Mississippi River Gambling Stories (Louisiana State University Press, 2010).