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John Seelye

John Seelye is a graduate research professor of American literature at the University of Florida. He is the author of The True Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain at the MoviesProphetic Waters: The River in Early American LiteratureBeautiful Machine: Rivers and the Early RepublicMemory's Nation: The Place of Plymouth Rock, and War Games: Richard Harding Davis and the New Imperialism. He is also the consulting editor for Penguin Classics in American literature.