John Jacob Nolde was born in Reading, Pennsylvania in 1919 and died in 1988. Graduating in 1941 from Cornell University with a degree in economics, his studies were halted by World War II. A member of the U.S. Army Air Corps, he was stationed in the Far East. He resumed his scholarly pursuits after the war and in 1950 received a doctorate in history from Cornell. He was a member of the faculty of the history department at the University of Maine and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. He served the University of Maine from 1950 to 1984. He wrote numerous articles on The China cantos of Ezra Pound.
From the description of Papers, 1950-1986. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 55044346