Robert Zaller is Distinguished University Professor of History Emeritus at Drexel University. In addition to writing highly regarded works in English intellectual, political, and constitutional history, he has published two previous books on Robinson Jeffers: The Cliffs of Solitude: A Reading of Robinson Jeffers (Cambridge University Press) and Robinson Jeffers and the American Sublime (Stanford University Press). He is also the editor of Centennial Essays for Robinson Jeffers (University of Delaware Press) and The Tribute of His Peers: Elegies for Robinson Jeffers (Tor House Press). His honors include a Guggenheim fellowship and membership in the Royal Historical Society. In 2018, he received the Lawrence Clark Powell Award of the Robinson Jeffers Association for distinguished scholarship.