With How Sad Steps, O Moon

Christopher Benfey is Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke and author of numerous books of literary history, including A Summer of Hummingbirds (Penguin Press, 2008) and Degas in New Orleans (University of California Press, 1999). His latest book is a family memoir called Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay. (updated 4/2012)