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G. Thomas Tanselle, who was vice president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation from 1978 to 2006, is coeditor, with Harrison Hayford and Hershel Parker, of the fifteen-volume Northwestern-Newberry Edition of the Writings of Herman Melville (1968 – 2017). He is a recipient of the Gold Medal of the Bibliographical Society (London) and is textual adviser to the Library of America, on whose board he has served since he helped found the organization in 1979. He is the author of, among other books, American Publishing History: The Tanselle Collection; Books in My Life; A Rationale of Textual Criticism; Textual Criticism and Scholarly Editing; Textual Criticism since Greg; Bibliographical Analysis: A Historical Introduction; Essays in Bibliographical History; and Literature and Artifacts.