Arms, George Warren, 1912-....
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George Warren Arms (1912-1992), professor.
From the description of George Warren Arms collection, 1848-1988. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702171393
From the description of George Warren Arms collection, 1848-1988. (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 60366697
George Warren Arms was born February 1, 1912, in La Grande, Oregon to George Wells and Marguerite Shattuck Arms. He was educated at Princeton University, the Universities of Zurich and Munich, and New York University. He taught in preparatory schools from 1933-38, at Bennett Junior College in 1939, at Mary Washington College as an assistant professor of English from 1939-44, and at the University of New Mexico as a professor of English from 1945 until his retirement.
Arms co-authored and co-edited numerous books on American writers and several on William Dean Howells, including Five Interviews with William Dean Howells (1943), A Bibliography of William Dean Howells (1948) and Selected Letters (1979-83). He also wrote The Fields were Green: A New View of Bryant, Whittier, Holmes, Lowell, and Longfellow (1953) and served as co-editor of The Explicator .
Arms married Elizabeth Tanner on June 27, 1936. He died January 1, 1992, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
From the guide to the George Warren Arms collection, 1848-1988, (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Role | Title | Holding Repository | |
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creatorOf | Arms, George Warren, 1912-. George Warren Arms collection, 1848-1988. | Yale University Library | |
creatorOf | Arms, George Warren, 1912-. Letter, 1947, to Lewis Mumford. | University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library | |
creatorOf | Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970. Papers of John Dos Passos [manuscript], 1896-1970. | University of Virginia. Library | |
creatorOf | George Warren Arms collection, 1848-1988 | Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library | |
referencedIn | Howells family papers, 1850-1954 (inclusive). | Houghton Library | |
referencedIn | Howells family papers, 1850-1954 (inclusive). | Houghton Library | |
referencedIn | Stanford University Press archival book copies, 1900-2012 | Cecil H. Green Library. Department of Special Collections and University Archives | |
referencedIn | The Nation, records, 1879-1974 (inclusive), 1920-1955 (bulk). | Houghton Library |
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associatedWith | Curtis, George William, 1824-1892. |
associatedWith | Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970. |
associatedWith | Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881. |
associatedWith | Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930. |
associatedWith | Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920. |
associatedWith | Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891. |
associatedWith | Meynell, Francis, 1891-1975. |
correspondedWith | Nation (New York, N.Y. : 1865). |
associatedWith | Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908. |
associatedWith | Stanford University. Press. |
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