James David Hart | |
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| Born | April 18, 1911 San Francisco, California, United States |
| Died | July 23, 1990 (aged 79) Berkeley, California, United States |
| Alma mater | Stanford University Harvard University |
| Children | Carol Field |
| Relatives | Alison Field (granddaughter) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | American literature English literature |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
James David Hart, CBE[1] (April 18, 1911 – 23 July 1990) was an American literary scholar and professor at University of California, Berkeley for fifty-four years. He is most notable for writing The Oxford Companion to American Literature and A Companion to California.