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Norman Yoffee

Norman Yoffee, CV-1 page (for full cv, see sitemaker.umich.edu/nyoffee) Education: BA, Northwestern University (1966), PhD, Yale University (1973) (also: University of Chicago (summer 1967), University of Munich (1969-70) Honors: D Lit (honoris causa), La Trobe University (Melbourne), 1998 Major Grants: A....[more]

Roger D. Woodard

Apuleius

Apuleius (c. 125 – c. 180) was a Latin novelist, writer, and public speaker. Apuleius is best known for his novel, Metaporphoses. Because his first name was not recorded, Apuleius is sometimes referred to as Lucius Apuleius after the main character in the Metaporphoses. Apuleius was born in present-day Algeria. I....[more]

Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold (December 24, 1822 – April 15, 1888) was an English poet and critic. He is best known for the lyric poems “Dover Beach” (1867), “The Scholar-Gipsy” (1853), the commemorative poem “Thyrsis” (1865), a series of essays called Culture and Anarchy, and Literature and Dogma. Arnold was born at Laleham on ....[more]

Robert Browning

Robert Browning (May 7, 1812 - December 12, 1889) Browning was born in Camberwell, a suburb of London, England, the only child of Robert and Sarah Anna Browning. Browning’s father owned a library of about 6,000 books so Robert always had considerable literary resources. By age twelve Browning had written a book of p....[more]

E. A. Wallis Budge

E. A. Wallis Budge (Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge) (July 27, 1857 - November 23, 1934) Budge was born in Bodmin, Cornwall, England to Mary Ann Budge. His father is unknown. He went to live with his grandmother and aunt in London as a young man. He was interested in languages by the age of ten, but left s....[more]