Wayne C. Booth (1921–2005) was the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago, where he taught in the English Department, the Committee on Ideas and Methods, and the College. His many books include The Rhetoric of Fiction, A Rhetoric of Irony, Critical Understanding, The Vocation of a Teacher, and For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivals, all published by the University of Chicago Press.
Gregory G. Colomb (1951–2011) was professor of English at the University of Virginia and the author of Designs on Truth: The Poetics of the Augustan Mock-Epic.
Joseph M. Williams (1933–2008) was professor emeritus of English and linguistics at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace. Colomb and Williams jointly wrote The Craft of Argument.
Together Booth, Colomb, and Williams authored The Craft of Research, currently in its third edition (University of Chicago Press, 2008).