Perry D WestbrookPerry D. Westbrook is Professor of English at the State University of New York at Albany. He has also taught English at the University of Kansas, Georgia Tech, and the University of Maine. He holds A.B., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia Universiy. His doctoral dissertation - a study of rural New England writers-was written under the supervision of Lionel Trilling and was published in 1951 under the title Acres of Flint. His Biography of an Island (Swans Island, Maine) was published in 1958, and it was followed in 1961 by The Greatness of Man: An Essay on Dostoyevsky and Whitman. His other writings include studies of Mary Ellen Chase and Mary Wilkins Freeman, numerous journal articles on literary subjects, and several mystery novels, one of which was translated into Spanish and published in Argentina several years ago. Dr. Westbrook has held Guggenheim and Eugene Saxton fellowships as well as a Fulbright lectureship in Kerala, India. Born in New York City in 1916, he has lived much of his life in rural areas, and he now resides on a farm ten miles west of Albany. Read More Read Less