Robert C. Gordon

Robert C. Gordon was born in Melbourne, Australia, and raised in the United States. After serving in World War II, he earned his doctorate in English Literature at Harvard and went on to teach at the University of Oregon and San Jose State University. He has been a Fulbright scholar, a John Hay toon meer fellow, and a reviewer and editorial consultant for a variety of publishers and journals. After the publication of Under Which King? A Study of Sir Walter Scott's Fiction, he began to explore the relations between military and literary history in a series of papers, reviews, and articles that led to Arms and the Imagination. He now lives in Old Lyme, Connecticut. toon minder