Emory Holloway

Rufus Emory Holloway ( born March 16, 1885 in Marshall, Missouri; † 30 July 1977) was an American literary scholar, university teacher and biographer.

Life

Rufus Emory Holloway received his bachelor's degree in 1906 from Hendrix College and received his master's degree in 1912 from the University of Texas. Subsequently, he studied from 1913 to 1914 at Columbia University and was a lecturer from 1914 to 1916 assistant professor of English at Adelphi University. His academic career was interrupted by his military service in World War II, when he served the American Expeditionary Force in France. He returned in 1919 to the Adelphi and was professor of English, a position he held until 1937. He then became an assistant professor of American Literature at Queens College, City University of New York and in 1954 was given emeritus status.

During his time at Columbia Holloway became aware of the American poet Walt Whitman. He has published several essays and books about his life and work. With his biography published in 1926 Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative Holloway was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Best Biography. With his 1960 book published Holloway 's Free and Lonesome Heart Holloway put his critics who accused him previously to have ignored Whitman's homosexuality.

Work

• The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman ( 1921)
• Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative (1926 )
• Holloway 's Free and Lonesome Heart (1960 )

Weblink

• Professor Emory Holloway, Biografical Sketch (English)

• Author
• Literary scholar
• University teachers ( Adelphi University)
• University teachers (New York University)
• Pulitzer Prize winner
• Americans
• Born 1885
• Died in 1977
• Man