David Madden is a Writer-in-Residence at Louisiana State University. He has co-authored several texts on creative writing, including Creative Choices, Studies in the Short Story, the fourth edition of Studies in Short Fiction, and Poetic Images in Six Genres. Mr. Madden is the author of Shadow Knows, The Popular Cultural Explosion, and the novels Cassandra Singing, Bijou, and Suicide's Wife. [extracted from 1978 brochure]