Dan McCall is an authority on American Literature and Creative Writing. He came to Cornell in 1966 and taught here for 40 years. He is the author of several novels, including Jack the Bear (1974), which has been translated into a dozen languages, and Triphammer (1991). His critical and scholarly books include The Example of Richard Wright (1969), The Silence of Bartleby (1989), Citizens of Somewhere Else (1999), and The Norton Critical Edition of Melville's Short Novels (2002).