Jerome Loving is an American literary critic and academic.
He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of American Literature and Culture at Texas A&M University at College Station, and the author of several books about Walt Whitman, Theodore Dreiser, Mark Twain and Emily Dickinson.
[1] His Jack and Norman: A State-raised Convict and the Legacy of Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song is under option by Village Roadshow Entertainment Group.
His biography of Walt Whitman was a finalist for the Los Angeles Book Prize in 2000.
He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for his scholarly contributions to American Literature in 2002.