Edward Dorn, Charles Olson, and the American West

Paul Varner completed his undergraduate studies at Oklahoma Christian University, before receiving his MA and PhD in English from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Most recently, he served as Scholar-in-Residence at Abilene Christian University, USA. He is the author of Historical Dictionary of Westerns in Cinema (2008); Historical Dictionary of Westerns in Literature (2010); Historical Dictionary of the Beat Movement (2012); and Historical Dictionary of Romanticism in Literature (2014). He also edited the scholarly collections Westerns: Paperback Novels and Movies from Hollywood (2008) and New Wests and Post-Wests: Literature and Film of the American West (2013).