Alex Vernon

Alex Vernon attended the U.S. Military Academy and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. The Eyes of Orion: Five Tank Lieutenants in the Persian Gulf War, won an Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book Award; Military History magazine dubbed it “the single best book” on the war. His other memoir, most succinctly bred, was called “beautiful and smart and original” by novelist Tim O’Brien. Vernon’s primary work of scholarship on American war literature, Soldiers Once and Still, received a “highly recommended” endorsement from the American Library Association. He is currently an Associate Professor of English at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas.