Christopher Love currently is a third-year candidate for a PhD in Literature at the University of Southern Mississippi, concentrating in modern American and British literature. While attending Louisiana State University in 2005, Chris ‘s frequent trips down I-10 to the Big Easy inspired his New Orleans-set novel Crescent Garden (Evermore, 2007). He also has presented and published papers on such diverse writers as Mark Twain, Toni Morrison, John Updike, and William Wells Brown. Chris is a veteran of the US Marine Corps. A native of another great music town, Memphis, TN, Chris is an avid guitarist. He also enjoys travel with his wife, Evelyn. They live in Hattiesburg, MS. Chris is among academics whose proposals for papers related to the theme of Words & Music, 2010 have been accepted. He will present on Sunday, November 21 following Literature & Lunch Five. The topic of his presentation will be: From Soldiers ‘ Pay to A Fable: Faulkner ‘s Art of War.