John W. Aldridge

John W. Aldridge
BornJohn Watson Aldridge
(1922-09-26)September 26, 1922
Sioux City, Iowa, United States
DiedFebruary 7, 2007(2007-02-07) (aged 84)
Madison, Georgia, United States
OccupationWriter, critic, essayist, professor
Alma materUniversity of Tennessee at Chattanooga (1940–1943)
Middlebury College (1942)
University of California at Berkeley (1947)
Notable worksAfter the Lost Generation,
In Search of Heresy: American Literature in an Age of Conformity
Notable awardsRockefeller Foundation Fellowship (1976)[1]
SpousePatsy Aldridge

John W. Aldridge (September 26, 1922 – February 7, 2007) was an American writer, literary critic, teacher and scholar. He was a professor of English at the University of Michigan, director of the Hopwood Program, and USIA Special Ambassador to Germany.[2]

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