Markham Shaw Pyle, who holds his undergraduate and law degrees from Washington & Lee, is co-author of an acclaimed centenary history of the Titanic enquiries in Britain and the United States, co-author of an account of that portentous year 1937, author of a history of Congress' 1941 vote to keep the draft four months before Pearl Harbor, and the co-editor and co-annotator of scholarly editions of Kipling's Mowgli stories and of Kenneth Grahame's tales of Rat, Mole, Toad, and Mr. Badger.