About the Author

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Thomas Minehan (1903-1948) was instructor of sociology at the University of Minnesota. As a graduate student, he lived among and studied transient teens during the height of the Great Depression. His research was published as Boy and Girl Tramps of America in 1934. Susan Honeyman is professor of English at the University of Nebraska. She is author of Elusive Childhood: Impossible Representations in Modern Fiction; Consuming Agency in Fairy Tales, Childlore, and Folkliterature; Child Pain, Migraine, and Invisible Disability; and Perils of Protection: Shipwrecks, Orphans, and Children's Rights, the latter published by University Press of Mississippi.