R. W. B. Lewis

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Richard W. B. Lewis (1917- June 13, 2002) was an American literary scholar and critic. He gained a wider reputation when he won a 1976 Pulitzer Prize with his biography of Edith Wharton. He was professor of American Literature at Yale University, where he had a position from 1959. From 1954 to 1959 he taught at Rutgers-Newark. In 1988 Lewis received a Litt.D. from Bates College.

[edit] Works written

• The American Adam: Innocence, Tragedy, and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century (1955)
• The Picaresque Saint. Representative Figures in Contemporary Fiction (1959)
• Herman Melville (1962)
• Trials of the Word: Essays in American Literature and the Humanistic Tradition (1965)
• The Poetry of Hart Crane: A Critical Study (1967)
• American Literature: The Makers and the Making: Book C / 1861 to 1914 (1974, with Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren)
• Edith Wharton (1975)
• The Jameses: A Family Narrative (1991)
• Literary Reflections : A Shoring of Images 1960-1993 (1993)
• The City of Florence: Historical Vistas and Personal Sightings (1995)
• American Characters: Selections from the National Portrait Gallery, Accompanied by Literary Portraits (1999, with Nancy Lewis)
• Dante (2001)

[edit] Works edited

• Presence of Walt Whitman (1962)
• Malraux: A Collection of Critical Essays (1964)
• The Letters of Edith Wharton (1989, with Nancy Lewis)
• The Selected Short Stories of Edith Wharton (1991)