Lidthenewyorker

I began professional life doing proletarian American lit and African-American lit; before long I added law and lit. But my early teaching was as a generalist so my library reflects the listed enthusiasms plus most periods and areas of western european lit plus literary theory. I can only do this a few entries at a time.

chair of an english department; live in nyc. The picture is not me; it is a picture from the late 1930s of Walter Carl Darrow White, the son of Walter Francis White, about whom I am writing.