Jay Ruud

Jay Ruud is a retired English professor whose six-volume Merlin Mysteries series, which retells the King Arthur legend, culminated this summer with To the Great Deep. Ruud has a Ph.D. in Medieval Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and has written scholarly books on Chaucer, Dante, and Tolkien. He is married to poet and novelist Stacey Margaret Jones, has as many spectacular dogs as grandchildren (four), and will fight you unless you admit that modern literature begins in 1485.