Richard McGee Morse
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Richard McGee Morse,
at Columbia University, University of Puerto Rico, Yale University and Stanford University before finishing his career at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C.Morse was born in
Following
His most influential work was perhaps Prospero's Mirror, published in Spanish in 1982 and in Portuguese in 1988, but never entirely in English. In that book, Morse passionately defends that cultural and social originality of Latin America, particularly that of Brazil and Mexico, could be the source of new ideas, thoughts and solutions for the world. In 1993, Morse was awarded the Order of the Southern Cross (Ordem do Cruzeiro do Sul) for contributions to Brazilian culture, the nation's highest honor for non-Brazilians.
He married Emerante de Pradine, a Haitian singer, in 1954 and had two children, Richard Auguste Morse, who currently[when?] resides in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and Marise Morse Mahos who resides[when?] in Washington DC.
Morse died due to Alzheimer's disease on April 17, 2001, at his home in Pétion-Ville, Haiti.[1]
References
- ^ a b Romero, Simon. "Richard McGee Morse, 78, Latin America Expert", The New York Times, April 28, 2001. Accessed February 20, 2011. "Mr. Morse was born on June 26, 1922, in Summit, N.J., and reared in Connecticut. His forebears were from New England. He attended the Hotchkiss School and Princeton. During World War II he served in the Navy in the Pacific, then enrolled in Columbia, earning a Ph.D. in history and teaching there."
- ^ "Morse, Richard McGee," in Historians of Latin America in the United States, 1965: Biobibliographies of 680 Specialists. Ed. Howard F. Cline. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1966, 65.
External links
- [1] Notes Toward Fresh Ideology, Richard M. Morse
- Richard McGee Morse Papers (MS 1719). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.
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