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Donald Roy Howard (September 18, 1927 โ€“ March 2, 1987) was an American academic and author. During the 1950s to 1960s, Howard began his academic career as an instructor and associate professor. From the mid-1960s to mid 1980s, Howard primarily worked as an English professor for Johns Hopkins University and Stanford University. As an author between the 1960s and 1980s, Howard primarily focused his works on Geoffrey Chaucer. During this time period, Howard received a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship and the Guggenheim Fellowship twice. His posthumously published biography, Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World, received the 1987 National Book Critics Circle Award in the biography/autobiography category.

Early life and education

On September 18, 1927, Howard was born in St. Louis, Missouri. During his childhood, Howard lived in Swampscott, Massachusetts.[1] For his post-secondary education, Howard first received a Bachelor of Arts from Tufts University in 1950. He later obtained a Master of Arts in 1951 from Rutgers University and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1954 from the University of Florida.[2]

Career

After graduation, Howard worked as an instructor for a year at Florida before joining Ohio State University in 1955.[3] While at Ohio State, he continued his instructor career and was promoted to associate professor before he left the university in 1963.[2] From 1963 to 1966, Howard continued his associate professor experience at the University of California, Riverside.[4] After briefly working at the University of California, Los Angeles for a year, Howard was an English professor at Johns Hopkins University from 1967 until 1977. He then continued his English professorship at Stanford University from 1977 to 1985 before ending his academic career with Stanford in 1987.[2] During his academic career, Howard was the Caroline S. Donvoan Professor of English between 1973 and 1977 and the Olive H. Palmer Professor in the Humanities from 1984 to 1987.[5]

Apart from academics, Howard released The Three Temptations: Medieval Man in Search of the World in 1966 while teaching at California.[4] Focusing on Geoffrey Chaucer, Howard was an editor of a 1969 publication titled The Canterbury Tales: A Selection.[6] For his two books in 1976, Howard revisited The Canterbury Tales before moving on to Troilus and Criseyde and other Chaucer poetry.[3] Four years later, Howard released a sequel to The Idea of the Canterbury Tales titled Writers and Pilgrims: Medieval Pilgrimage Narratives and Their Posterity.[5]

As an biographer, Howard began to write about Chaucer in the late 1970s. For his biography, Howard started writing about Chaucer's writing techniques before focusing on the writing process of

essayist, Howard wrote about Dylan Thomas and William Shakespeare.[3]

Honors and personal life

During his career, Howard received fellowships from the Fulbright Program to conduct research in Italy between 1959 and 1960.[5][10] Howard conducted additional research with an American Council of Learned Societies grant during the 1960s.[4] While specializing in medieval literature, Howard was given his first Guggenheim Fellowship in 1969.[11] In 1970, Howard joined the Medieval Academy of America.[12] From the National Endowment for the Humanities, Howard received a research fellowship in 1977 while at Stanford.[13]

With a second Guggenheim Fellowship in 1984, Howard conducted research for his biography on Chaucer.[11][14] The following year, Howard was named a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America.[5] The

AIDS in San Francisco, California.[8]

References

  1. ISBN 0810345919
    . Retrieved September 30, 2020.
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    ISSN 0010-7468
    . Retrieved September 30, 2020.
  3. ^ a b c Brown, George Hardin (May 13, 1987). "Donald R. Howard 1927โ€“1987". Campus Report. Stanford University. p. 22. Retrieved November 2, 2020.
  4. ^ a b c "UCR 'Prof' Has Book Published". The San Bernardino County Sun. May 1, 1966. p. C-19.
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  6. ISBN 0816061939
    . Retrieved September 30, 2020.
  7. ^ Cooney 1991, pp. 94โ€“96
  8. ^ a b Schermerhorn, James (March 4, 1987). "Donald R. Howard". San Francisco Examiner. p. C-8.
  9. ^ Maves, Carl (October 25, 1987). "A Poet from the Autumn of Feudalism". The San Francisco Examiner. sec. Reviews pp. 1, 10.
  10. ^ "Donald Howard". Fulbright Schloar Program. Retrieved March 2, 2023.
  11. ^ a b "Donald R. Howard". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
  12. ^ "Dr. Howard Honored". The Evening Sun. Baltimore. May 27, 1970. p. A 12.
  13. ^ "NEH grant details: Fictions and Fiction at the Close of the Middle Ages". National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved October 22, 2023.
  14. ^ a b Cooney 1991, p. 94
  15. ^ Trueheart, Charles (January 12, 1988). "Book Critics Give 'Bomb' Its Second Top Honor". Washington Post. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
  16. ^ "The National Book Critics Circle Award". National Book Critics Circle. 1987. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
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