David O'Connell
David O'Connell received his Ph.D. in French from Princeton in 1966. After two years of service in the US Army as an intelligence officer, including one year in Vietnam, he began his academic career in 1968 and has been teaching ever since. Always interested in the Catholic tradition in French literature, he turned his attention to Catholic writers of the American South in the mid-1990s. He has published a study of Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind.