Why Read? (18 page)

A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR

Mark Edmundson is NEH/Daniels Family Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Virginia. A prizewinning scholar,
he has published a number of works of literary and cultural criticism, including
Literature Against Philosophy, Plato to
Derrida,
as well as a memoir,
Teacher: The One
Who Made the Difference.
He has also written for such publications as the
New Republic,
the
New
York Times Magazine,
the
Nation,
and
Harper's,
where he is a contributing editor.

A NOTE ON THE TYPE

The text of this book is set in Linotype Sabon, named after the type founder Jacques Sabon. It was designed by Jan Tschichold
and jointly developed by Linotype, Monotype, and Stempel, in response to a need for a typeface to be available in identical
form for mechanical hot metal composition and hand composition using foundry type.

Tschichold based his design for Sabon roman on a font engraved by Garamond, and Sabon italic on a font by Granjon. It was
first used in 1966 and has proved an enduring modern classic.