Theodore Baird
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Theodore Baird (February 28, 1901 - December 22, 1996) was a noted American professor of English at Amherst College.
Baird was born in Warren, Ohio, and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He served on the Amherst faculty from 1927-1969, and was the creator of the college's highly regarded freshman composition course.
Baird's Amherst house, the Theodore Baird Residence, was one of the few New England houses designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
[edit] Selected works
- The first years, selections from autobiography, New York, R.R. Smith, Inc., 1931.