Two Lists of Single Author Journals

They Are Difficult to Find

I have rambled on about single author periodicals in many posts and this will be the fourth in a row about that subject. It will be the last one. My few readers will be relieved, but should any accidental visitor stumble upon them, I am sure they will be useful. I say "sure" because finding them is difficult.

To demonstrate the difficulty in finding single author journals as a category (i.e. all of them) I will present first, the result I found after conducting another search for them. Given that the words "author(s)" and "journal(s)" yield a large number of unrelated "hits" one might find the following single author journals listed in Wikipedia, under: "List of Academic Journals About Specific Authors." I will say right away that not all such journals are "academic" and, to indicate that the list is hundreds of titles short of being complete, I provide a list of single author journals published currently by just one university press. It is still the case that the best reference source is an old one and it remains the starting point for any future researcher: Author Newsletters and Journals : An International Annotated Bibliography of Serial Publications Concerned With the Life and Works of Individual Authors, by Margaret C. Patterson.

Before the lists, here are some brief remarks which, along with my other posts, may be useful for anyone who chooses to work on this subject or look for these periodicals.

-That there is an academic industry devoted to single intellectuals/authors should not be surprising. There are also many periodicals devoted to popular authors.

- There are entire courses dedicated to one author and there are conferences held on their behalf, but some writers are seen to merit more attention and given it in serial publications.

- Retiring academics are sometimes honoured by a Festschrift so single author journals can be regarded as simply continually published Festschriften. - Not all single author journals are about single authors. Some include others who are in some way closely related. - One is likely find them mentioned only in bibliographies or when a new one comes along and an advertisement is produced in a publication such as the TLS. I spotted one a while back about The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society and I learned recently that the Arnold Bennett Society publishes a 40+ page newsletter three times a year. They often appear on lists when they die.

- The market for such serials is small and even university libraries will usually have only those devoted to major figures (Shakespeare) or those demanded by a zealous faculty member.

- And again to demonstrate how hard they are to locate, there is no way to find out how many of these journals your favourite university library has.

The Internet is likely to result in a decline in the number of single author journals in printed form. There is, however, unlikely to be a decrease in the number of individuals who remain dedicated to their own favourite author.

         LIST OF ACADEMIC JOURNALS ABOUT SPECIFIC AUTHORS
   This list is found in Wikipedia along with this brief statement: "The following is a list of notable academic journals and magazines that are devoted to the study of specific authors and philosophers. Some of the journals are not currently active."
   Links are provided in some cases and some go to an entry for the journal in Wikipedia. There are more than 66 since some authors rate more than one journal, e.g., Dickens(3) Hegel(3), Shakespeare(3). The subjects range from, fiction, politics (Lincoln), and religion to philosophy and the geographic coverage is broad, e.g. C.L.R. James (Trinidad). Women are included: Cather, Dickinson, Rand, and some journals are about more than one author, e..g the Brontes and The Inklings. The Acorn, is listed next to Gandhi and King "since it explores philosophical issues related to non-violence in theory and practice, with a focus on the work of M. K. Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr." Fitzgerald and Hemingway also share a journal. Although these people have their own journal, I am willing to bet there are names you will not recognize. That the list is only a partial one is illustrated by the next list which is from just one press.

1. Hannah Arendt. Arendt Studies

2. Aristotle. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society

3. Augustine of Hippo. Augustinian Studies; Augustinianum

4. Jane Austen. Persuasions; Jane Austen Annual

5. Samuel Beckett. Journal of Beckett Studies; Samuel Beckett Today

6. George Berkeley. Berkeley Studies

7. Brontë family. Brontë Studies

8. Willa Cather. Willa Cather Newsletter & Review

9. Gilbert Keith Chesterton. The Chesterton Review

10. Joseph Conrad. The Conradian

11. Gilles Deleuze. Deleuze and Guattari Studies

12. Jacques Derrida. Derrida Today

13. Charles Dickens. Dickens Quarterly; Dickens Studies Annual; The Dickensian

14. James Dickey. James Dickey Review

15. Emily Dickinson. The Emily Dickinson Journal

16. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Baker Street Journal

17. T. S. Eliot. T. S. Eliot Studies Annual

18. Philip José Farmer. Farmerphile: The Magazine of Philip José Farmer

19. William Faulkner. The Faulkner Journal

20. F. Scott Fitzgerald. The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review; Fitzgerald/Hemingway Annual

21. Theodor Fontane. Fontane Blätter

22. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The Acorn

23. Robert Graves. Gravesiana

24. Graham Greene.Graham Greene Studies

25. Félix Guattari. Deleuze and Guattari Studies

26. H. Rider Haggard. Haggard Journal

27. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Hegel Bulletin; Hegel-Jahrbuch; The Owl of Minerva

28. Martin Heidegger. Heidegger Studies

29. Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway Review; Fitzgerald/Hemingway Annual

30. David Hume. Hume Studies

31. Edmund Husserl. Husserl Studies

32. The Inklings. Journal of Inklings Studies; VII: Journal of the Marion E. Wade Center; Mythlore [not about an individual, but an Oxford discussion group.]

33. C. L. R. James. The CLR James Journal

34. Henry James. The Henry James Review

35. Ben Jonson Ben. Jonson Journal

36. James Joyce. James Joyce Quarterly

37. Franz Kafka. Journal of the Kafka Society of America

38. Immanuel Kant. Kant Yearbook; Kant-Studien; Kantian Review

39. Søren Kierkegaard. Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook; Kierkegaard Studies Monograph Series

40. D. H. Lawrence. D. H. Lawrence Review

41. Martin Luther King Jr. The Acorn

42. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. The Leibniz Review; Studia Leibnitiana

43. Emmanuel Levinas. Levinas Studies

44. C. S. Lewis. Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal; VII: Journal of the Marion E. Wade Center.

45. Abraham Lincoln. The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association

46. Bernard Lonergan. The Lonergan Review

47. Pierre Loti. Bulletin de l'Association internationale des amis de Pierre Loti

48. Thomas Mann. Thomas Mann Jahrbuch (in German)

49. Cormac McCarthy. The Cormac McCarthy Journal

50. Herman Melville. Leviathan

51. Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Chiasmi International

52. Vladimir Nabokov. Nabokov Studies

53. Friedrich Nietzsche. New Nietzsche Studies; The Journal of Nietzsche Studies

54. Paul the Apostle. Pauline Studies; Journal for the Study of Paul and His Letters

55. Edgar Allan Poe. Poe Studies: History, Theory, Interpretation

56. Marcel Proust. Marcel Proust Bulletin

57. Ayn Rand. The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies

58. Philip Roth. Philip Roth Studies

59. Jean-Paul Sartre. Sartre Studies International

60. William Shakespeare. Shakespeare Bulletin; Shakespeare Quarterly; The Shakespeare Yearbook

61. George Bernard Shaw. SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies

62. Wallace Stevens. The Wallace Stevens Journal

63. J. R. R. Tolkien. Tolkien Studies; Journal of Tolkien Research; Mallorn; VII: Journal of the Marion E. Wade Center; Quettar

64. Giambattista Vico. New Vico Studies

65. Virginia Woolf. Virginia Woolf Bulletin

66. Slavoj Žižek. International Journal of Žižek Studies

LIST OF SINGLE AUTHOR JOURNALS FROM PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS This list was constructed from the journals listed at PSU Press in 2025. There is no category for these single author journals. I simply took the ones I identified on the list of PSU journals. Other journals in this category would be found at other university press websites. For example, the University of Chicago Press publishes, Spencer Studies and The Wordsworth Circle.

1. The Arthur Miller Journal
2. Bishop–Lowell Studies
3. The Chaucer Review: A Journal of Medieval Studies and Literary Criticism
4. The Cormac McCarthy Journal
5. Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction
6. The Edgar Allan Poe Review
7. Edith Wharton Review
8. The Eugene O'Neill Review
9. The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review
10. George Eliot—George Henry Lewes Studies
11. The Harold Pinter Review: Essays on Contemporary Drama
12. The Langston Hughes Review
13. The Mark Twain Annual
14. Milton Studies
15. Nathaniel Hawthorne Review
16. SHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies
17. Steinbeck Review
18. The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats [about more than one author.]
19. Thornton Wilder Journal
20. Wesley and Methodist Studies
21. William Carlos Williams Review     

   If you are interested in the class of single author journals, Patterson's

Author Newsletters and Journals : An International Annotated Bibliography of Serial Publications Concerned With the Life and Works of Individual Authors, is still the place to begin. If you want to take on a large research project to update that work, you will have a lot of work to do. Some of the other related posts in MM will be useful and since this is my last mention of this subject, here is one short piece I was unable to examine: "One Man's Meat: Societies and Journals Devoted to a Single Author," William White, American Book Collector, 1957, 8(3), p.22. 
  To use a word that may be found in one of Zane Grey's books, or journals about him, I will now say adios to this subject. 

Wayne State University Press

Regionalism and University Presses

     It can be difficult to find interesting books. The various "Best Sellers Lists" are generally not too useful and you may balk at the suggestions made by the heavily pierced bookstore clerk, or not find anything enticing among "Heather's Picks" (for American readers, our Heather is the boss of Indigo Books, the equivalent of  your Barnes and Noble).
    If you are interested in the general area in which we live I will make the surprising suggestion that you look at some of the books published by the Wayne State University Press.  I said "surprising" because many civilians think that scholarly books written by academics are likely to be unreadable. That may be the case for most subjects about which they write, but sometimes an attempt is made to publish books that will have some appeal for the tax-paying citizens.
    I made a similar suggestion a while back when I posted about the Penn State University Press. They publish a local series called Keystone Books and the geographical range of some of them extends across the lake and the subjects covered are often of interest to Canadians.
    Wayne State University Press produces books about many subjects. The focus here is on the Great Lakes Book Series. If you travel to Detroit or enjoy books about cars, sports and the history of our area have a look at their publications.
     A list of some of the titles from the WSU Press available in London is provided below. As well, they publish some works in Canadian Studies and a few titles are mentioned at the bottom of this list.

 Great Lakes Book Series (click on this link for a full list of the titles in this series.)
Editor: Thomas Klug, Wayne State University
"The Great Lakes Books Series specializes in books of regional interest and importance to Michigan and the entire Great Lakes region. Inaugurated in 1986 to honor Michigan's 1987 sesquicentennial, the series currently includes titles on Michigan and regional history, the Upper Peninsula, military history, the Great Lakes and maritime history, Detroit history and culture, automotive history, art and architecture, literature, sports, ecology and the environment, and books for young readers."

  

     Listed below are about 40 titles from the Great Lakes Series that are available in the Western Libraries. There are around 1000 titles listed in the Western catalogue from the WSU Press. The London Public Libraries also have some. In both cases, the books can be located by doing a key word search by publisher.

The Ambassador Bridge : a monument to progress 
Arsenal of democracy : the American automobile industry in World War II 
Throughout World War II, Detroit's automobile manufacturers accounted for one-fifth of the dollar value of the nation's total war production, and this amazing output from "the arsenal of democracy" directly contributed to the allied victory.
Beyond the Model T : the other ventures of Henry Ford 

The French Canadians of Michigan : their contribution to the development of the Saginaw Valley and the Keweenaw Peninsula, 1840-1914 
Charting the inland seas : a history of the U.S. Lake Survey 
Deep woods frontier : a history of logging in northern Michigan 
Narrating the history of Michigan's forest industry, Karamanski provides a dynamic study of an important part of the Upper Peninsula's economy.


Designing Detroit : Wirt Rowland and the rise of modern American  architecture 
Shines a light on Detroit architect Wirt Rowland who, until now, has largely slipped into obscurity.
Detroit : city of race and class violence 
Beginning with the legacy of the Ku Klux Klan and the industrial tyranny of the early twentieth century, Detroit: City of Race and Class Violence charts Detroit's bitter history through the birth of industrial unionism, war time, the 1967 riots, and their effect on the city today.
Detroit images : photographs of the renaissance city 

The Detroit Tigers : a pictorial celebration of the greatest players and moments in Tigers history Discovering stained glass in Detroit 
"Expanding the frontiers of civil rights" : Michigan, 1948-1968 
A fluid frontier : slavery, resistance, and the Underground Railroad in the Detroit River borderland 
New research on the long, shared struggle for freedom by people of African descent in the Detroit River borderland from a uniquely bi-national perspective.
Frontier metropolis : picturing early Detroit, 1701-1838 
Great Lakes journey : a new look at America's freshwater coast 
Henry's lieutenants 
In the shadow of Detroit : Gordon M. McGregor, Ford of Canada, and Motoropolis 
Part biography and part corporate history, In the Shadow of Detroit investigates the life and career of Gordon M. McGregor, who founded and led Ford of Canada during the first two decades of the twentieth century.

Iron fleet : the Great Lakes in World War II 
John E. Fetzer and the quest for the new age, 
John Jacob Astor : business and finance in the early republic 
Biography of John Jacob Astor's life and his career as a merchant, fur trader, and land speculator as vehicles for examining several important themes and issues in American economic and urban development between 1790 and 1860.
Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair handbook 
Let the drum beat : a history of the Detroit Light Guard / 
Life on the Great Lakes : a wheelsman's story
The Making of Michigan, 1820-1860 : a pioneer anthology
Mapping Detroit : land, community, and shaping a city
Illustrates and analyzes Detroit’s dramatic physical transformation in a balanced mix of text and maps.
Maxwell Motor and the making of Chrysler Corporation
A detailed history of Maxwell Motor Company, a medium-sized Detroit automaker that became the foundation of the Chrysler Corporation.

Michigan remembered: photographs from the Farm Security Administration and the Office of War Information, 1936-1943
A newscast for the masses : the history of Detroit television News
"Old Slow Town" : Detroit during the Civil War 
Details Detroit's tumultuous social, political, and military history during the Civil War.
A place for summer : a narrative history of Tiger Stadium
Riding the roller coaster : a history of the Chrysler Corporation
Roads to prosperity : economic development lessons from midsize  Canadian cities
Explores popular economic development strategies in midsize Canadian urban areas.
Roy D. Chapin : the man behind the Hudson Motor Car Company /

Rumrunning and the roaring twenties : prohibition on theMichigan-Ontario Waterway 
Songquest the journals of Great Lakes folklorist Ivan H. Walton
The field notes of a pioneering folklorist who collected the songs, stories, and cultural history of Great Lakes sailors in the 1930s.
Steamboats & sailors of the Great Lakes 
Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes traces the evolution of the Great Lakes shipping industry over the last three centuries.
Storied independent automakers : Nash, Hudson, and American Motors
Survival and regeneration : Detroit's American Indian community
These men have seen hard service : the First Michigan  Sharpshooters in the Civil War /
Turkey Stearnes and the Detroit Stars : the Negro leagues in Detroit, 1919-1933


Uppermost Canada : the Western District and the Detroit frontier, 1800-1850 
Examines the historical, cultural, and social history of the Canadian portion of the Detroit River community in the first half of the nineteenth century.
Windjammers : songs of the Great Lakes sailors
Wonderful power : the story of ancient copper working in the Lake Superior Basin 

    The Wayne State University Press also publishes books relating to Canadian Studies. Here are two examples:


Power Play:Professional Hockey and the Politics of Urban Development
Big money and municipal politics collide in the story of Edmonton’s Rogers Place hockey arena.


Reflections on Malcolm Forsyth
A captivating and approachable portrait of the life and work of a Canadian musical legend.

University Presses

Penn State University Press

     In the neighbouring state across the lake, Penn State has a press and one of the series they publish is called, fittingly enough, "Keystone Books".  There are over 50 different series published ranging, alphabetically, from Africana Religions to World Christianity.  There are books about Chinese thinkers (Collection of Critical Biographies of Chinese Thinkers) and some about one Scottish thinker (Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid). The usual serious subjects are covered (e.g. Refiguring Modernism; Re-Reading the Canon) and one on humor is planned (Humor in America).  Keystone Books is chosen here because they" are intended to serve the citizens of Pennsylvania. They are accessible, well-researched explorations into the history, culture, society, and environment of the Keystone State as part of the Middle Atlantic region."  This is, I think, a laudable goal.

Keystone Books

     Rallying the scholars to produce some products for the civilians is not a bad idea. I am not sure how many other university presses may have done this, but I will let you know in future posts on the subject of university publishing if any are found.  You may have noticed that many scholarly books are now unreadable, even if they are covering subjects which we have lived (modern history) or experienced (popular culture).  They are also often only about subjects of concern to those within the academy and, even more frequently, of interest only to those sequestered in the basements of a few humanities departments.  Publishing a few 'practical' books without mentioning once the word 'praxis' should to nothing to reduce the skills of those who produce them and deans should be encouraged to reward such efforts.

     Selected below are some Keystone Books.  Given that Pennsylvania is close by, even the state and regional ones may be of interest and a couple will be useful if you plan to visit.  Many other subjects are covered and some Keystone Books will be found up at Western, should you wish to have a look. At list is provided at the end.

Pennsylvania: A History of the Commonwealth, Edited by Randall M. Miller and William A. Pencak

“From Quaker rule to the devastating decline of the steel industry, Pennsylvania: A History of the Commonwealth chronicles political, cultural, and economic developments that have shaped the Keystone State. Edited by Saint Joseph’s University history professor Randall M. Miller and William Pencak, a historian at Pennsylvania State University, this lucid and comprehensive history includes contributions from archivists, historians and other academics on such subjects as the state’s role in the Underground Railroad and the folklore of the Pennsylvania Dutch. The first part of the handsomely illustrated volume is a straightforward chronological history, while the second is divided into thematic chapters on such subjects as the geography, archaeology and literature of the state.” —Publishers Weekly

Pennsylvania Overlooks: A Guide for Sightseers and Outdoor People, Art Michaels

“With descriptions of nearly 50 impressive overlooks in the Keystone State, this book is an invaluable guide for planning spring getaways. For a romantic weekend trip for two, or a quick day trip with the whole family, the locations detailed in Pennsylvania Overlooks yield fantastic opportunities to get out of the house and take in some of the most remarkable sights Pennsylvania has to offer.” —Tribune

The Best Places You've Never Seen:Pennsylvania's Small Museums: A Traveler's Guide,

Therese Boyd

“Although the Philadelphia Museum of Art, with its famous Rocky staircase and Thomas Eakins masterpieces, is a must-see for most Keystone State visitors, the rest of the state’s museums are largely unknown to outsiders. Writer Boyd has visited small museums throughout Pennsylvania and found 42 she says are worth detouring for; she details these little gems in this handy guide organized by region. In the Poconos, visitors should check out the Houdini Tour and Show, where they can see the padlocks the great escapist used, or Yuengling Brewery, dubbed ‘America’s Oldest Brewery.’ While trucking through the Alleghenies, drivers might make a pit stop at Mr. Ed’s Elephant Museum, a nondescript wooden building that features a range of ‘elephantania,’ from plaster elephants to elephant salt and pepper shakers. And in an around Philly, there’s the Mummers Museum, which pays tribute to the city’s version of Mardi Gras; the Shoe Museum (displaying South African clogs and a size 18 shoe); and more. It’s a quirky travel guide that will undoubtedly be a godsend to anyone faced with a long drive on Route 80.” —Publishers Weekly

Gateway to the Majors: Williamsport and Minor League Baseball, James P. Quigel, and Louis E. Hunsinger

“Lou Hunsinger Jr. and Jim Quigel dig deep into baseball’s roots in North-central Pennsylvania and bring to life details of the events and individuals who have kept America’s National Pastime going strong into the 21st century.” —Jim Carpenter, Williamsport Sun-Gazette

American Shad in the Susquehanna River Basin: A Three-Hundred-Year History, Richard Gerstell

“Gerstell employs government reports, deed records, and newspaper accounts to reconstruct the size of the catches, methods employed by fishermen, and legislative attempts to check the inexorable decline of shad after 1830. Estate inventories yield lists of tools related to fishing, adding specificity and interest to this unpretentious but enlightening account of the once-abundant Susquehanna shad.”

Down the Susquehanna to the Chesapeake, Jack Brubaker

“Captures the charm—and violence—of the Chesapeake Bay’s only indispensable tributary. . . . Doubly welcome, for its own considerable virtues and for filling in so many of the blanks in our knowledge of a river that plays a far larger role in this part of the country than most of us realize. . . . Brubaker’s meticulous and loving description of the river should do much to heighten our appreciation of this secret treasure. . . . University-press publishing at its absolute best.” —Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World

The Monongahela: River of Dreams, River of Sweat, Arthur Parker

"The Monongahela River in western Pennsylvania, one of three rivers that meet at the Golden Triangle in Pittsburgh, has a rich history associated with the westward expansion of the nation during the colonial era and with the development of America as an industrial power beginning in the nineteenth century."

Twilight of the Hemlocks and Beeches, Tim Palmer

“The noble beech and the mighty hemlock help define the forest I’ve spent my life wandering; that they are now facing ruin is one more sadness in the great sadness settling over the planet. One is enormously grateful to the author for capturing their meaning and beauty; we should do all that we can to keep them healthy.” —Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature

 

At Work in Penn's Woods: The Civilian Conservation Corps in Pennsylvania, Joseph M. Speakman

“An excellent study of state history with national themes.” —P. D. Travis, Choice

The Civilian Conservation Corps was one of the most popular programs of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. Over the nine years of the program, from 1933 to 1942, over two and one-half million unemployed young men found work on conservation projects across Depression-stricken America. “Roosevelt’s Tree Army,” as the CCC men were sometimes called, planted billions of trees, fought forest fires, did historic preservation work, and constructed recreational facilities in state and national parks. At Work in Penn’s Woods offers a rich and compelling portrait of Pennsylvania’s CCC program."

Keystone Books in the Western Libraries

Lair of the Lion : A History of Beaver Stadium , Lee Stout, Harry

“Football is an unmistakable part of the culture of Penn State, though the experience of a Nittany Lions home game—from the crowds and tailgates to the spectacle of the game itself—has changed significantly over the years. This richly illustrated and researched book tells the story of the structure that has evolved along with the university’s celebrated football program: the iconic Beaver Stadium.”

 

Buggy Town : An Era in American Transportation, Charles M.  Snyder.

“Horse and buggy transportation originated in New England and edged westward through Pennsylvania to center later in the Middle West. The buggy was a very light, high-wheeled carriage unique to the United States. This vehicle created a centralized trade concentrated in such towns as Mifflinburg, Pennsylvania, identified near and far as "The Buggy Town." This book is an illustrated story of "The Buggy Town," its shops, vehicles, and customs as they reflected an era of transportation in America.”

Holidays : Victorian Women Celebrate in Pennsylvania , Nada Gray.

“Women in rural Pennsylvania played an important role in family celebrations of Christmas and Easter during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book focuses on that role by examining their crafts related to the tree and the egg. Guided by the editors of ladies magazines, they strove for fashionable holiday decorations created from readily available materials.”

Rivers of Pennsylvania, Tim Palmer.

“An introduction to Pennsylvania's usable streams—45,000 miles of them—this book is designed to stimulate interest, enjoyment, and concern. Together with pleasurable reading, information is provided for the active or prospective canoeist, kayaker, boater, or rafter; the hiker or camper; the nature or history buff; the angler or conservationist.”

Other Summers : the Photographs of Horace Engle, Edward Leos ; Foreword by Alan Trachtenberg.

“This rare cache of early photographs, salvaged and printed by the author, reveals an authentic view of life in the late 19th century America with a photographic vision that was fifty years ahead of its time. An unposed, candid record of people and activities in rural areas and towns of Pennsylvania and Virginia in the 1880's, these images have a quality of unstrained honesty and freshness that is in marked contrast to the stilted, formal portraits of the period.”

 A Pennsylvania Album : Picture Postcards, 1900-1930, George Miller.

“The 270 photographs reproduced in this volume constitute a unique view of everyday life in each of Pennsylvania's counties during the period from 1900 until 1930. Taken from picture postcards, each photograph is accompanied by a short, informative caption.”

Seaweeds : A Color-coded, Illustrated Guide to Common Marine Plants of the East Coast of the United States, C. J. Hillson.

“Automobiles, interstate highways, shorter work weeks, longer vacations, and higher salaries have all combined to bring the seashore closer to man. Where once a visit to the shore was only a dream for many, or a once-in-a-lifetime trip for others, the varied oceanic life that has held man's interest for centuries is now just beyond the garage doors of the American family. The same curiosity that stirs the beach combing instincts of coastal dwellers is possessed by inlanders, and now a midwesterner too can do something about that curiosity.”

Sources: 
Penn State University Press

Post Script

    It is interesting that the Penn State University Press is under the auspices of the University Libraries. Here is the full mission statement taken from the Strategic Plan.
1. Mission
"The Pennsylvania State University Press, reporting to the Dean of University Libraries and Scholarly Communications, publishes original scholarly, peer-reviewed research (books, journals, and other forms of research) in the arts, humanities, and social sciences for worldwide scholarly   communities. The Press disseminates this research to international libraries, institutions, and scholars at affordable prices and at the highest quality. The Press also serves the citizens of Pennsylvania by publishing on topics related to the history, culture, literature, society, politics, and future of Pennsylvania and the mid-Atlantic region."

  It is also interesting that some of the titles are 'unlocked' (i.e. open access).