Back to the Lake with Back to the Lake Ebook, The Little Seagull Handbook Third Edition Ebook, and InQuizitive for Writers Thomas Cooley  (PhD, Indiana University) is emeritus professor of English at The Ohio State University. In addition to Back to the Lake , he is the editor of The Norton Sampler and the Norton Critical Edition of  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , and the author of several other books, among them Educated Lives: The Rise of Modern Autobiography in America  and  The Ivory Leg in the Ebony Cabinet: Madness, Race, and Gender in Victorian America .