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The scarlet professor
Newton Arvin
By Werth, Barry
- ISBN
- 978-0-38549-468-7
- Publisher
- New York : Nan A. Talese, c2001.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on April 1, 2001
Werth (The Billion-Dollar Molecule) begins this expos with the arrest of Newton Arvin (1900-63) for possession of pornography, then presents a chronologically organized narrative from Arvin's arrival in Northampton, MA, as a 24-year-old instructor at Smith College, to his death. Arvin became a well-known literary critic and authored biographies of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walt Whitman, and Herma...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
