Michael Wainwright holds the position of Honorary Research Associate with the English Department at Royal Holloway, University of London. His monographs include Darwin and Faulkner's Novels: Evolution and Southern Fiction (2008), The Rational Shakespeare: Peter Ramus, Edward de Vere, and the Question of Authorship (2018), and Faulkner's Ethics: An Intense Struggle (2021).
The black woman who cooks Roth's food does not appear directly, but he does speak to her "through the kitchen door" when he wants her to bring Lucas into the house (125).