Unlocking the Wordhord: Anglo-Saxon Studies in Memory of Edward B. Irving, Jr. Ed. by MARK C. AMODIO and KATHERINE O'BRIEN O'KEEFER. Toronto and London: University of Toronto Press. 2003. x+359 pp. $78; 48 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8020-4822-6. This important collection offers fourteen...

Irving Howe: Socialist, Critic, Jew. By EDWARD ALEXANDER. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. To ask those born after the 1940s what position a public intellectual should assume is to risk, at the very least, being labeled quaint; these days intellectuals have repudiated...

Explores the life of writer Avi Wortis. Describes his early life and childhood in New York City. Examines his body of work.

Avi won over ninety awards for his astonishing books. "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" won the Newberry Medal. In Crispin: The Cross of Lead, a young boy with no identity is accused of murder. He discovers what his name and identity is when he ventures out with Bear.

Avi wrote many books including, Midnight Magic, Something Upstairs, No More Magic, Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway?, S.O.R. Losers, and Don't You Know There Is A war On? Today, in 2005, Avi is still living and is still a very well-known author.