Bill Koon writes a bi-monthly opinion column on the editorial page. He is a South Carolina native and a professor of English at Clemson University, where he teaches courses in American and Southern literature.  He is the editor of the two-volume collection Classic Southern Humor and an anthology of Civil War fiction, Old Glory and the Stars and Bars.  His most recent book, Hank Williams, So Lonesome, is generally recognized as the standard biography of the country musician.  He has twice been chair of the English Department at Clemson, and he was a senior Fulbright lecturer in southern literature to Austria.  He lives in Greenville with his wife, Gabriele Scheiber, and their daughter Mattea.