Dr. Irene Goldman-Price earned her PhD in English from Boston University and spent much of her career teaching English and Women's Studies at Ball State University in Indiana. She is the co-editor of American Literary Mentors and editor of My Dear Governess: The Letters of Edith Wharton to Anna Bahlmann, for which she earned fellowships from the Beinecke Library at Yale University and the Edith Wharton Society. She has served on the editorial board of the Edith Wharton Review; as a trustee at The Mount, Edith Wharton’s house museum in Lenox, Massachusetts; and is a frequent public speaker on various aspects of Wharton's life and work. She is married to fellow Wharton scholar Alan Price.