Bill Savage is a senior lecturer in English at Northwestern University. He co-edited the 50th anniversary critical edition of Algren's The Man with the Golden Arm and the newly annotated edition of Chicago: City on the Make. In addition, he is a series editor for Chicago Visions + Revisions. Savage is the recipient of the James Friend Memorial Award in Literary Criticism from the Society of Midland Authors, and the 2004-2005 Distinguished Teaching Award from Northwestern's School for Continuing Studies.