Helen Heightsman Gordon, Ed.D., has been a professor of English at Bakersfield College in Bakersfield, California, and an editor in the College of Engineering at the University of California in Santa Barbara. She has studied the Shakespeare authorship question for the past fifteen years, having been persuaded by the Oxfordian scholars Charlton Ogburn, Jr., and his parents, Dorothy and Charlton Ogburn. She has edited and published a World War II memoirs, authored a historical novel, a book of word games, and five textbooks. She has also published numerous articles in professional journals, newspaper opinion pieces, poetry, and humor.