Kristin O. Lauer is Associate Professor of English at Fordham University.  Her publications include Edith Wharton: The Contemporary Reviews (with James Tuttleton and Margaret P. Murray) and Edith Wharton: An Annotated Secondary Bibliography (with Margaret P. Murray).  Her psychological study, Gallery of the Damned: The Inner World of Edith Wharton's Women, is forthcoming.  She has published psychological essays on George Eliot, Henry James, and Edith Wharton.