Dr Fraser Mann is Senior Lecturer in Literature at York St. John University, UK. He is a specialist in American writing with particular interests in conflict, testimony, and trauma. He has published research on a range of literary figures such as Ernest Hemingway, James Jones and Norman Mailer. He also works on music writing in the form of creative non-fiction and recently co-edited the Bloomsbury edited collection Music, Memory and Memoir. His creative writing can be found on the Twistin’ My Memory, Man blogspace. His teaching interests include American Studies, autobiography and twentieth- and twenty-first-century war writing.