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R. W. B. Lewis. Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis (November 1, 1917 - June 13, 2002) was an American literary scholar and critic. He gained a wider reputation when he won a 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, [1] the first National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction, and a Bancroft Prize for his biography of Edith Wharton ...
Jun 15, 2002 · R. W. B. Lewis, the literary critic and Yale scholar who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his biography of Edith Wharton, died on Thursday at his home in Bethany, Conn. He was 84. Professor Lewis ...
Aug 15, 2016 · When he reentered her life in the late 1890s, he was 37. R.W.B. Lewis described him as “a tall, slender man with a well-trimmed mustache, owning a reputation for urbanity, a range of humanistic learning, and a habit of mildly lewd facetiousness; a persistent gallant and a confirmed bachelor who was much in demand in Washington society.”
Quick Reference. (1917–), Chicago-born scholar of American literature, received his A.B. from Harvard and Ph.D. from Chicago, and taught at Yale for many years. His books include The American Adam (1955), an ... From: Lewis, R [ichard] W [arrington] B [aldwin] in The Oxford Companion to American Literature ». Subjects: Literature.
Renowned literary scholar and critic R.W.B. Lewis, whose biography of Edith Wharton won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1976, died on June 13 at his home in Bethany, Connecticut, at the age of 84. A member of the Yale faculty from 1959 until his retirement in 1988, Professor Lewis held joint appointments in the Departments of English and American Studies.
Apr 17, 1977 · In R. W. B. Lewis's “Edith Wharton: A Biography” we have the story of Edith Newbold Jones Wharton complete, from the baptismal certificate of 1862 in fashionable Grace Church to the decorous ...
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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom, by Ilyon Woo (Simon & Schuster). A rich narrative of the Crafts, an enslaved couple who escaped from Georgia in 1848, with light-skinned Ellen disguised as a disabled white gentleman and William as her manservant, exploiting assumptions about race, class and disability to hide in public on their journey to the North, where ...
