The Author: Patrick Day was born in 1963 in Helena, Montana. In 1986, he earned a B.A., cum laude, in French and English from the University of Montana-Missoula. From 1986 to 1987, he taught English at the Lycée Saint-Exupéry in Marseille. In 1989 he earned his M.A. in French from the University of Montana-Missoula and in 1993, he earned his Ph.D. in French from Tulane University, where he was a Pew Teaching Fellow. He has taught at Lyndon State College and Wabash College and is currently a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.