Charles Molesworth is the author of biographies of Marianne Moore, Alain Locke, and Countee Cullen, and literary critical monographs on Donald Barthleme and Gary Snyder. The regular art columnist for Salmagundi, and author of many articles on modern literature and the visual arts, he has also edited the modern section of The Heath Anthology of American Literature and the essays of Alain Locke.