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John Watson Aldridge
John W. Aldridge (September 26, 1922 - February 7, 2007) was an American writer, literary critic, teacher and scholar. During his career, he was a professor of English at a number of universities, ...view moreJohn W. Aldridge (September 26, 1922 - February 7, 2007) was an American writer, literary critic, teacher and scholar. During his career, he was a professor of English at a number of universities, director of the Hopwood Program, USIA Special Ambassador to Germany, and an esteemed literary critic.
Born in Sioux City, Iowa in 1922, he was educated at the University of Chattanooga in Tennessee and the University of California at Berkeley. In 1942 he was a Fellow of The Bread Loaf School of English in Vermont. From 1948 to 1955, Aldridge taught at the University of Vermont, later transferring to Sarah Lawrence College and Queens College, both in New York. He lectured in the Christian Gauss Seminars in Criticism at Princeton in 1953-1954 and was Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English at New York University, before becoming a professor of English at the University of Michigan.
John W. Aldridge’s was the author of a number of books, including: Critiques and Essays on Modern Fiction, 1920-1951; Representing the Achievement of Modern American and British Critics (1952); In Search of Heresy (1956); Party at Cranton (1960); Time to Murder and Create: The Contemporary Novel in Crisis (1966); In the Country of the Young (1970); Devil in the Fire; Retrospective Essays on American Literature and Culture 1951-1971 (1972); American Novel and the Way We Live Now (1983); Classics & Contemporaries (1992); and Talents and Technicians: Literary Chic and the New Assembly-line Fiction (1992).
He passed away in Madison, Georgia in 2007 at the age of 84.view less
Books by John Watson Aldridge
After the Lost Generation: A Critical Study of the Writers of Two World Wars