John Michael Cooper (Southwestern University) is the author of the Historical Dictionary of Romantic Music (2nd edition, 2024), three books on Mendelssohn, and _Margaret Bonds: The Montgomery Variations and Du Bois “Credo” (Cambridge UP, 2023). The editor of more than 100 volumes of music by Bonds, Mendelssohn, and Florence Price, he is also the author of the first book-length biography of Margaret Bonds (this to appear with Oxford University Press later in 2024).
