About the Author

Talat S. Halman is professor and chair of the Department of Turkish Literature at Bilkent University in Ankara. Formerly he was on the faculties of Columbia University, Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, and New York University. Halman is the author and editor of more than seventy books, including Nightingales and Pleasure Gardens, The Turkish Muse, and A Brave New Quest. He is also the editor of the Journal of Turkish Literature. Born in Iznik, Turkey, Zeki Findikoglu traveled through every region of the Anatolia Peninsula as a child and young adult before moving to the United States in 1973. His paintings are exhibited widely in the U.S., Turkey, Europe, and Asia. Findikoglu is chair of the art department at Montgomery College in Germantown, Maryland. Jayne L. Warner is the director of research at the Institute for Aegean Prehistory in Greenwich, Connecticut.