词条 | Marcus Cunliffe |
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BiographyCunliffe was born in Lancashire[1]. He read history at Oriel College, Oxford and Sandhurst,[3] served in the British Army during World War II.[1] From 1947 to 1949 he was at Yale,[2] where he was Harkness Fellow.[https://web.archive.org/web/20110524141056/http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FAMS%2FAMS39_03%2FS0021875805000563a.pdf&code=c96c65d39537ce16d36eebf438633b36] It was in the US that he met his first wife, Mitzi Solomon, and they returned together in 1949 to the UK. From 1949 to 1964 Cunliffe taught American history at the University of Manchester.[1] From 1965 to 1980, Cunliffe was Professor of American Studies at the University of Sussex, which established the Cunliffe Centre in 1991.[1] From 1980 Cunliffe was University Professor at George Washington University.[1] Cunliffe wrote or edited more than 15 books on history and literature. Cunliffe's best known early work was George Washington: Man and Monument, published in 1958.[1] His papers are held at George Washington University's Special Collections Research Center, located in the Estelle and Melvin Gelman Library.[1] Cunliffe died of leukemia in Washington D.C. on September 2, 1990.[1] Works
References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Guide to the Marcus Cunliffe Papers, 1960-1990, Special Collections Research Center, Estelle and Melvin Gelman Library, The George Washington University 2. ^1 Author biography in The Literature of the United States (Pelican Books.) Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970 [3rd edition]) Further reading
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