Gender | Male |
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Weekday | Thursday |
Date | Nov. 1, 1917 |
Time | 11:50 a.m. |
Daylight Saving | No |
City | Chicago, Illinois, United States |
Geo-location | 41ºN51'0.11", |
Timezone | America/Chicago |
City | Chicago, Illinois, United States |
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Timezone | America/Chicago |
Time (America/Chicago) | Nov. 01, 1917, 11:50:00 AM |
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Time (UTC) | Nov. 01, 1917, 05:50:00 PM |
Time (LMT) | Nov. 01, 1917, 11:59:24 AM |
Time (Julian) | 2421534.24305556 |
LMT Correction | -5.8433 Hrs |
Ayanmsha | True Chitra - 22º41'21.45" |
American writer, professor, critic and scholar. He received a Doctorate in 1953 and was a Professor at Rutgers and Yale from 1959. His first book in 1955, "The American Adam," was followed by "The Picaresque Saint" in 1959. Noted as a refreshingly discursive critic, he also had articles published in "Trials of the Word." A native of Chicago, Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis is the son of Leicester and Beatrix (Baldwin) Lewis. He attended the English School in Switzerland in 1929-1930. From there he went on to Phillips Exeter Academy and graduated in 1935. Lewis earned his Bachelor of Arts degree at Harvard in 1939 and his Master of Arts at the University of Chicago in 1941. During World War II he served in the British Eighth Army engaged mainly in intelligence work. After the war, Lewis taught English at Bennington College, 1948-1950 and was a visiting lecturer at Smith College, 1951-9152. The University of Chicago awarded him his Ph.D. in 1953. He was at Princeton from 1952-1954 as Hodder Fellow and then as resident fellow in creative writing. From 1954 to 1959 he taught at Rutgers University as professor of English. In 1959 he went to Yale as a visiting lecturer and remained there as professor of English and American studies. He has traveled a great deal in Europe, including a stint as Fulbright lecturer at the University of Munich. "The American Adam," title and theme of his first book, 1955, explores the idea of the American as a new kind of man in a new world. "The Picaresque Saint,"1959, portrays a similar archetypal figure of our paradoxical age. A collection of Lewis’ magazine articles was published in 1965 as "Trials of the Word." R. W. B. Lewis is an important critic said to have "a worldly wisdom and maturity of mind which enable him to speak with a sometimes positively disturbing authority." In 1958 he received an award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters for "creative work in literature," and he has a doctorate from Wesleyan University, 1961. He serves as literary consultant to Universal Pictures. Lewis married Nancy Lindau in 1950 and has two children. He died on 13 June 2002. Link to Wikipedia biography
S.No. | Event Type | Event Date | Event Description |
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1 |
Published/Released |
Jan. 1, 1955 |
Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1955 (First book released) |
2 |
Prize |
Jan. 1, 1958 |
Work : Prize 1958 (Award from National Institute of Arts and Letters) |
3 |
New Career |
Jan. 1, 1959 |
Work : New Career 1959 (Professor at Rutgers and Yale) |
4 |
New Job |
Jan. 1, 1959 |
Work : New Job 1959 (Professor at Yale) |
5 |
Published/Released |
Jan. 1, 1965 |
Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1965 (Magazine articles published) |
S.No. | Event Type | Event Date | Event Description |
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1 |
Marriage |
Jan. 1, 1950 |
Relationship : Marriage 1950 (Nancy Lindau) |
S.No. | Event Type | Event Date | Event Description |
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1 |
Unspecified |
June 13, 2002 |
Death, Cause unspecified 13 June 2002 (Age 84) . |
Degree Completion
Jan. 1, 1935
Social : End a program of study 1935 (Graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy)
Degree Completion
Jan. 1, 1939
Social : End a program of study 1939 (Bachelor Degree from Harvard)
Degree Completion
Jan. 1, 1941
Social : End a program of study 1941 (Master of Arts degree)
Degree Completion
Jan. 1, 1953
Social : End a program of study 1953 (Received his doctorate)