About the Author of
Hinsonville, A community at the Crossroads
The Story of a Nineteenth-Century African-American Village

Marianne H. Russo, with degrees in history and linguistics, taught English at Lincoln University, where for several years she directed the Humanities Program. She also held teaching posts at Franklin & Marshall and West Chester University.

Her late husband, Paul A. Russo, with a Ph.D. from Columbia University, was Associate Professor of History at Lincoln University until his untimely death in the late 1970s.