Edward Tripp
Edward Tripp lived in Hamden, Connecticut and died in 1999 at the age of 79. He worked as a children's literature author, and an editor at Thomas Y. Crowell before becoming editor-in-chief at Yale University Press. He is best known for his books The Tin Fiddle and The New Tuba , as well as his work on the Meridian Handbook of Classical Mythology, previously titled Crowell's Handbook of Classical Mythology. The Crowell\Meridian Handbook of Classical Mythology functions as a reader's companion to classical mythology and is formatted as an alphabetical encyclopedia that offers direct transliteration of Greek mythology.