Jack Wallace earned his MA and PhD in American Literature at the University of Chicago and spent most of his career teaching at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. For years before h...view moreJack Wallace earned his MA and PhD in American Literature at the University of Chicago and spent most of his career teaching at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. For years before his retirement, he planned to write a narrative history of Chicago in two volumes. He died in 2006 after completing the first, Croghan’s War.view less