Robin W. Winks | |
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Born | Indiana | December 5, 1930
Died | April 7, 2003 New Haven, Connecticut | (aged 72)
Nationality | American |
Subject | history |
Spouse | Avril (Flockton) Winks (m. 1952) |
Robin W. Winks (December 5, 1930 in Indiana – April 7, 2003 in New Haven, Connecticut) was an American academic, historian, diplomat, writer on the subject of fiction, especially detective novels, and advocate for the National Parks.[1] After joining the faculty of Yale University in 1957, he rose in 1996-1999 to become the Randolph Townsend Professor of History and Master of Berkeley College. At Oxford University he served as George Eastman Professor[2] in 1992-3, and as Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History in 1999-2000.