Nathanael T. Booth is Associate Professor in the School of Foreign Languages at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He is the author of American Small-Town Fiction, 1940-1960: A Critical Study (McFarland, 2019) and God and the Great Detective: Ellery Queen's Struggle with the Divine, 1945-1965 (Forthcoming: McFarland, 2023). He has also written about Gore Vidal, Edgar Allan Poe, and S-Town.