Obituary, Lowell Sun, Lowell MA.
March, 24, 1963,
Arvin Rites Held
Northampton - Funeral services were held Saturday for Newton Arvin, a prize winning author and long time English professor at Smith College.
Arvin, a native of Valparaiso, Indiana, died Friday in Cooley-Dickinson Hospital at the age of 62. Though he retired from Smith's faculty two years ago he had remained a resident of this community.
Arvin joined the faculty of the women's college as an English instructor in 1922, a year after he was graduated from Harvard College. He became a full professor in 1940, specializing in 19th cemtury American literature.
Author of a number of books and magazine articles, Arvin won the National Book Award for non-fiction in 1951, with his biography of Herman Melville.
He also published a work on Hawthorne in 1929, one on Whitman in 1938 and three compilations, "The Heart of Hawthorne's Journal's" in 1929, "Hawthorne's Short Stories" in 1946 and "The Selected Letters of Henry Adams" in 1952.
Arvin served as associate editor of Living Age from 1925 to 1926, won a Guggenheim fellowship in 1935, and was a visiting lecturer at Ohio State University in 1951.
He was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and Phi Beta Kappa and a director and member of the corporation of Yaddo, a widely known artists colony near Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
March, 24, 1963,
Arvin Rites Held
Northampton - Funeral services were held Saturday for Newton Arvin, a prize winning author and long time English professor at Smith College.
Arvin, a native of Valparaiso, Indiana, died Friday in Cooley-Dickinson Hospital at the age of 62. Though he retired from Smith's faculty two years ago he had remained a resident of this community.
Arvin joined the faculty of the women's college as an English instructor in 1922, a year after he was graduated from Harvard College. He became a full professor in 1940, specializing in 19th cemtury American literature.
Author of a number of books and magazine articles, Arvin won the National Book Award for non-fiction in 1951, with his biography of Herman Melville.
He also published a work on Hawthorne in 1929, one on Whitman in 1938 and three compilations, "The Heart of Hawthorne's Journal's" in 1929, "Hawthorne's Short Stories" in 1946 and "The Selected Letters of Henry Adams" in 1952.
Arvin served as associate editor of Living Age from 1925 to 1926, won a Guggenheim fellowship in 1935, and was a visiting lecturer at Ohio State University in 1951.
He was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and Phi Beta Kappa and a director and member of the corporation of Yaddo, a widely known artists colony near Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
Obituary, Lowell Sun, Lowell MA.
March, 24, 1963,
Arvin Rites Held
Northampton - Funeral services were held Saturday for Newton Arvin, a prize winning author and long time English professor at Smith College.
Arvin, a native of Valparaiso, Indiana, died Friday in Cooley-Dickinson Hospital at the age of 62. Though he retired from Smith's faculty two years ago he had remained a resident of this community.
Arvin joined the faculty of the women's college as an English instructor in 1922, a year after he was graduated from Harvard College. He became a full professor in 1940, specializing in 19th cemtury American literature.
Author of a number of books and magazine articles, Arvin won the National Book Award for non-fiction in 1951, with his biography of Herman Melville.
He also published a work on Hawthorne in 1929, one on Whitman in 1938 and three compilations, "The Heart of Hawthorne's Journal's" in 1929, "Hawthorne's Short Stories" in 1946 and "The Selected Letters of Henry Adams" in 1952.
Arvin served as associate editor of Living Age from 1925 to 1926, won a Guggenheim fellowship in 1935, and was a visiting lecturer at Ohio State University in 1951.
He was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and Phi Beta Kappa and a director and member of the corporation of Yaddo, a widely known artists colony near Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
March, 24, 1963,
Arvin Rites Held
Northampton - Funeral services were held Saturday for Newton Arvin, a prize winning author and long time English professor at Smith College.
Arvin, a native of Valparaiso, Indiana, died Friday in Cooley-Dickinson Hospital at the age of 62. Though he retired from Smith's faculty two years ago he had remained a resident of this community.
Arvin joined the faculty of the women's college as an English instructor in 1922, a year after he was graduated from Harvard College. He became a full professor in 1940, specializing in 19th cemtury American literature.
Author of a number of books and magazine articles, Arvin won the National Book Award for non-fiction in 1951, with his biography of Herman Melville.
He also published a work on Hawthorne in 1929, one on Whitman in 1938 and three compilations, "The Heart of Hawthorne's Journal's" in 1929, "Hawthorne's Short Stories" in 1946 and "The Selected Letters of Henry Adams" in 1952.
Arvin served as associate editor of Living Age from 1925 to 1926, won a Guggenheim fellowship in 1935, and was a visiting lecturer at Ohio State University in 1951.
He was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and Phi Beta Kappa and a director and member of the corporation of Yaddo, a widely known artists colony near Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
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