Name Arthur Mizener | Role Author | |
Died February 15, 1988, Bristol, Rhode Island, United States Books The Far Side of Paradise Education Princeton University (1934), Harvard University Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada Nominations National Book Award for Nonfiction Similar People Harold Bloom, Chip Deffaa, F Scott Fitzgerald | ||
Arthur Mizener (3 September 1907 – 15 February 1988) was a professor of English and literary critic. After graduating from Princeton University, he obtained his master's degree from Harvard University before returning to Princeton to receive his doctorate in 1934. After teaching at Yale University; Wells College in Aurora, New York; and Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, he joined Cornell in 1951. From then until his retirement in 1975, he was Mellon Foundation Professor of English at Cornell University.
Among his other works, he was the author of the first biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Far Side of Paradise, and a biography of Ford Madox Ford.
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