Cynthia Griffin Wolff | |
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| Born | Cynthia Griffin August 20, 1936 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Died | July 25, 2024 (aged 87) |
| Occupation | Literary historian |
| Spouse | Robert Paul Wolff |
| Children | Patrick Wolff and Tobias Barrington Wolff |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Thesis | The Puritan sources of Richardson's psychological realism (1965 or 1966) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Massachusetts, Amherst Manhattanville College |
Cynthia Griffin Wolff (née Griffin; August 20, 1936 – July 25, 2024) was an American literary historian and editor known for her biographies of Edith Wharton and Emily Dickinson. She was the Class of 1922 Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.