Hedges, Elaine

Elaine Ryan Hedges was born in Yonkers, New York on August 17, 1927. She lived in Baltimore, Maryland, beginning in the late 1960s until her death on June 5, 1997. She was married in 1956 to William Hedges, a college professor, and had two children: daughter, Marietta Hedges, and son, James Leonard Hedges

Hedges graduated from Barnard College in 1948 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in American Studies. She received a master’s degree (1950) and a doctorate degree (1970) in American Studies from Harvard University. Her doctoral thesis was on the author and literary critic William Dean Howells.

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