Inez Hollander, a native from the Netherlands, received her Ph.D. in English in 1995 from the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands. She holds Masters degrees from Leicester University in Great Britain and Leiden University in the Netherlands. In the last fifteen years she has taught language, literature and creative writing classes in a wide variety of academic and community settings. Besides being the Dutch translator of the John Adams Papers (Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston), she has been an author, publishing in the Netherlands as well as the States. Her publications include a biography (The Road from Pompey's Head: The Life and Work of Hamilton Basso, Louisiana State University Press, 1999) and a memoir, entitled Ontwaken uit de Amerikaanse droom (Archipel/Imprint Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam, 2004).