Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray

Professor Emerita of English at the University of Colorado, Joan Klingel Ray is the editor of the Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB) volumes on Jane Austen, as well as the author of Jane Austen for Dummies and numerous scholarly articles about Austen and other novelists and poets. She has been interviewed on radio and television, and appears on the DVDs of the films The Jane Austen Book Club and Becoming Jane. Professor Ray is also the only three-term president of the Jane Austen Society of North America.