Branch, Edgar Marquess, 1913-....

Research Professor Emeritus, Department of English, Miami of Ohio.

From the description of Edgar Marquess Branch papers, 1939-2003 and undated. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 40093288

• 1913 Mar. 21: Born in Chicago, Ill., son of Raymond Sydney (publisher) and Marian (Marquess) Branch
• 1932 - 1933 : Studied at University College, London
• 1934: Received A.B. from Beloit College, Beloit, Wis.
• 1934 - 1935 : Graduate study at Brown University
• 1938: Received M.A. from the University of Chicago
• 1939, Apr. 29: Married Mary Josephine (Mary Jo) Emerson
• 1941: Received Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa
• 1941 - 1943 : Instructor at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
• 1942: (Editor) Mark Twain’s Letters in the Muscatine Journal
• 1943 - 1949 : Assistant Professor of English at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
• 1949: Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo.
• 1949 - 1957 : Associate Professor of English at Miami University
• 1950: Published The Literary Apprenticeship of Mark Twain
• 1957 - 1964 : Professor of English at Miami University, and Chair of the English Department from 1959-1964
• 1959: Published A Bibliography of James T. Farrell’s Writings, 1921-1957
• 1964 - 1968 : Research Professor of English at Miami University
• 1969: (Editor and author of the introduction and preface) Clemens of the Call
• 1971: Published James T. Farrell
• 1972: Published (with Frederick Anderson) The Great Landslide Case
• 1975: Named literary executor of the James T. Farrell estate
• 1978: Named Research Professor of English Emeritus and Research Associate in American Literature at Miami University
• 1979: Editor, with Robert H. Hirst, and with the assistance of Harriet Elinor Smith, of Mark Twain, Early Tales and Sketches, Volume 1: 1851-1864
• 1980 - 1990 : Member of the Board of Directors of the Mark Twain Project in Berkeley, Calif.
• 1981: Mark Twain, Early Tales and Sketches, Volume 2: 1864-1865
• 1985: (With Robert H. Hirst) The Grangerford-Shepherdson Feud: Life and Death at Compromise, Friends of the Bancroft Library, University of California Press (Berkeley, Calif.).
• 1985: Published Men Call Me Lucky: Mark Twain and the "Pennsylvania"
• 1988 - 1997 : Editor, with Michael B. Frank and Kenneth M. Sanderson, Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume 1: 1853-1866, Volume 2: 1867-1868, Volume 5: 1872-1873
• 1992: Published Mark Twain and the Starchy Boys
• 1993: Editor, with H.E. Smith, Roughing It
• 1996: Published Studs Lonigan’s Neighborhood and the Making of James T. Farrell
• 1998: Published A Paris Year: Dorothy and James T. Farrell, 1931-1932

From the guide to the Edgar Marquess Branch Papers, 1939-2003 and undated, (bulk 1960-1990), (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University)