William L. Andrews is E. Maynard Adams Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is general editor of Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography and The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology , and co-editor of The Oxford Companion to African American Literature and The Norton Anthology of African American Literature . Other works include the Norton Critical Edition of Up From Slavery; The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt ; To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro- American Autobiography, 1760-1865 ; Sisters of the Spirit; The Curse of Caste by Julia C. Collins; Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave ; and Slave Narratives after Slavery .