Mr.

James Thorpe

(
1915
2009
)
Huntington Library
;
San Marino, CA
Language and literary scholar; Educator; Library and museum administrator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Literature and Language Studies
Elected
1976
English and American Literature of the 17th - 20th centuries, especially Milton, Johnson, keats, and Wallace Stevens. He has published about a dozen books on major writers and literary and critical theory, and several dozen pamphlets for the general public on notable writers, books, and manuscripts. He has also published many poems and four collections of his proverbs. His current interest is writing poems and proverbs.
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