Contributing Writer: Dr. Billy-Bob Vanderbilt

Dr. Billy-Bob Vanderbilt is a renowned anti-elitist critic whose blue-collar sympathies were forged through years of occasional, yet rigorous yard work on many of his family’s various estates. During his early scholarly work as a pre-law major at Harvard, Vanderbilt had a revelation during a fierce snowstorm while shoveling out his Mercedes Benz, that work was hard and that hardship was poorly depicted in literature. It was from that moment of clarity that Vanderbilt was inspired to write such well-received pieces as, Cordelia’s Ingratitude: Parental Disrespect in King Lear, John Donne’s Naivety: The Bell Tolls for We…The Poor, and The Pretentiousness of the Colon: A Critique of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “France: An Ode.”