Gerald Owen Grow is professor of magazine journalism at Florida
A&M University. He completed high school in Tallahassee, Florida, graduated
from Harvard in 1964 and received a Ph.D. in English from Yale in 1968 (in
the peaceful days before Deconstruction), with a dissertation on Shakespeare's
tragedies and Milton's Paradise Lost. He spent a year of postgraduate
study at Pembroke College, Cambridge.
He has taught at Yale, San Francisco State, St. Mary's College of California,
Florida State University, and Florida A&M University--where he coordinates
the magazine program and advises Journey,
the FAMU student magazine.
Dr. Grow is the author of Florida Parks: A Guide to Camping in Nature
(a nature-lover's guide to the Florida outdoors, now going into its
sixth edition since 1981). He is also an internationally unrecognized cartoonist.
Address correspondance to him at:
Division of Journalism--TH 428
Florida A&M University
Tallahassee, FL 32307
Email: ggrow@longleaf.net