Wednesday, April 7, 2010

William Lyon Phelps

William Lyon Phelps

William Lyon Phelps (2 January 1865 - 21 August 1943) was an American author, critic and scholar. Phelps gained a B.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University and an M.A. from Harvard University, where he went on to teach for just one year before returning to Yale to hold a position in the English department for 41 years, retiring in 1933. From 1941 to 1943 he was the director of the Hall of Fame for Great Americans.



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