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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

CLIFTON D. BRYANT is a professor in the Department of Sociology at Virginia Tech University. Books published recently include The Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant Behavior (four volumes; 2001), which won the 2001 MSSA Distinguished Book Award, and The Handbook of Death and Dying (two volumes; 2003), which was identified by the American Library Association as one of the ‘‘Outstanding Reference Source’’ books of 2003. Last year, he was the recipient of the Southern Sociological Society’s 2002 Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award. This year he received the 2003–2004 College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences Excellence in Research and Creative Scholarship Award (Virginia Tech University). He is currently writing a textbook entitled ‘‘Going Home’’: An Introduction to Death and Dying.