Stanley Weintraub
Stanley Weintraub | |
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West Chester State Teachers College |
Stanley Weintraub (April 17, 1929 – July 28, 2019) was an American
biographer and an expert on George Bernard Shaw
.
Early life
Weintraub was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 17, 1929. He was the eldest child of Benjamin and Ray Segal Weintraub. He attended
West Chester University of Pennsylvania) where he received his B.S. in education in 1949. He continued his education at Temple University where he received his master's degree in English "in absentia," as he was called to duty in the Korean War
.
He received a commission in the
After the war, he enrolled at Pennsylvania State University in September 1953; his doctoral dissertation "Bernard Shaw, Novelist" was accepted on May 6, 1956.[2]
Personal life
He married Rodelle Horwitz in 1954; they had three children, and lived in Newark, Delaware.[3] He died on July 28, 2019, at the age of 90.[4]
Career
Except for visiting appointments, he remained at Penn State for all of his career, finally attaining the rank of Evan Pugh Professor of Arts and Humanities, with emeritus status on retirement in 2000. From 1970 to 1990 he was also Director of Penn State's Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies.[5]
Publications
He was a prolific award-winning author:[6][7]
- Private Shaw and Public Shaw: A Dual Portrait of Arabia and G. B. S.. London: Braziller, 1963.OCLC 394619
- The Yellow Book, Quintessence of the Nineties. Ed. with an introd. by Stanley Weintraub. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1964. OCLC 351035
- The Art of William Golding (with Bernard S. Oldsey). New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1965.
- Reggie: a Portrait of OCLC 1165471
- The Savoy: Nineties Experiment. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1966. OCLC 369413
- Beardsley: A Biography. London: Braziller, 1967. LCCN 73161896.
- The Last Great Cause: The Intellectuals and the Spanish Civil War. New York: Weybright & Talley, 1968. OCLC 437500
- Journey to Heartbreak ; the Crucible Years of Bernard Shaw, 1914–1918. New York: Weybright & Talley, 1971. OCLC 154871
- Journey to Heartbreak: The Crucible Years of Bernard Shaw. New York: Weybright & Talley, 1971. Received the George Freedley Award from the American Theatre Library Association in 1971.[9]
- Directions in Literary Criticism; Contemporary Approaches to Literature. Ed. by Stanley Weintraub & Philip Young. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1973. OCLC 609168
- Saint Joan: Fifty Years After, 1923/24-1973/74. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1973. OCLC 737250
- Whistler: a Biography. New York: Weybright & Talley, 1974. OCLC 821038
- OCLC 1991924
- OCLC 2118568
- War in the Wards: Korea's Unknown Battle in a Prisoner-of-war Hospital Camp. 2d ed. San Rafael, CA: Presidio Press, 1976. OCLC 1349913
- The Portable Bernard Shaw. New York : Penguin, 1977, 1986.
- Four Rossettis: a Victorian Biography. New York: Weybright & Talley, 1977. OCLC 2318460
- The London Yankees: Portraits of American Writers and Artists in London, 1894–1914. New York: Harcourt, 1979.
- Modern British Dramatists, 1900–1945. Dictionary of Literary Biography: Vol. 10. Detroit: Gale Research, 1982.
- The Unexpected Shaw: Biographical Approaches to George Bernard Shaw and His Work. New York: Ungar, 1982. OCLC 8729615
- British Dramatists since World War II. Dictionary of Literary Biography: Vol. 13. Detroit: Gale Research, 1982. OCLC 8195676
- A Stillness Heard Round the World: the End of the Great War, November 1918. London : Allen & Unwin, 1986. American ed. published by E. P. Dutton. OCLC 11970040
- Victoria: An Intimate Biography. New York: Dutton, 1987; 700 pages.OCLC 13666542
- Bernard Shaw on the London Art Scene, 1885–1950. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1989. OCLC 18950120
- Long Day's Journey Into War: December 7, 1941. New York: Dutton, 1991. OCLC 23179418
- Bernard Shaw: A Guide to Research. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992.
- OCLC 27684040
- Arms and the Man and John Bull's Other Island by George Bernard Shaw, with an Introduction by Stanley and Rodelle Weintraub. New York: Bantam, 1993.
- The Last Great Victory : the End of World War II, July–August 1945. New York : Truman Talley Books, 1995. OCLC 31610439
- Shaw's People: Victoria to Churchill. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996. OCLC 32312138
- Uncrowned King: The Life of Prince Albert. New York: Free Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0-7432-0609-9.
- OCLC 41548333
- Dear Young Friend: the Letters of American Presidents to Children. Ed. with Rodelle Weintraub. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Press, 2000.
- Edward the Caresser: the Playboy Prince who Became OCLC 45375122
- Silent Night: The Remarkable Christmas Truce of 1914. New York: Free Press, 2001. OCLC 46918071
- Charlotte and Lionel: a Rothschild Love Story. New York: Free Press, 2003. OCLC 50511533
- General Washington's Christmas Farewell: a Mount Vernon Homecoming, 1783. New York: Free Press, 2003. ISBN 978-0-7432-4654-5.
- Iron Tears: America's Battle for Freedom, Britain's Quagmire, 1775–1783. New York: Free Press, 2005. (also, subtitled Rebellion in America, 1775–1783. London: Simon and Schuster, 2005) OCLC 56592341
- Eleven Days in December. Christmas at the Bulge, 1944. New York: Free Press, 2006. OCLC 69645839
- 15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall: Three Generals Who Saved the American Century. New York: Free Press, 2007. OCLC 124074718
- General Sherman's Christmas. Savannah, 1864. New York: Harper/Smithsonian, 2009. OCLC 263605547
- Farewell, Victoria! English Literature 1880–1900. Greensboro, NC: ELT PRESS / University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2011. OCLC 760167199
- Who's Afraid of Bernard Shaw? Some Personalities in Shaw's Plays. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011. OCLC 707260815
- Victorian Yankees at OCLC 698327984
- Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December 1941. New York: DaCapo Press, 2011. OCLC 758974640
- Final Victory: FDR's Extraordinary World War II Presidential Campaign. New York: Da Capo Press, 2012. OCLC 744287559
- Young Mr. Roosevelt: OCLC 841198197
Awards
Weintraub was a
Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1968–1969.[13] On 11 November 1982, the university inaugurated the "Rodelle and Stanley Weintraub Center for the Study of the Arts and Humanities," containing a collection of their books, papers and memorabilia.[9] In 2011, he was awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters by West Chester University of Pennsylvania.[14]
References
- ^ Grace Matters, Interview: Stanley Weintraub
- OCLC 257796067. Retrieved Apr 14, 2021 – via Open WorldCat.
- ^ Simon and Schuster, Stanley Weintraub | Official Publisher Page
- ^ "Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus Stanley Weintraub has died | Penn State University". news.psu.edu. Retrieved Apr 14, 2021.
- ^ The Gale Literary Database: Contemporary Authors Online. 10 Sept. 2009. 7 Nov. 2011.
- ^ "Results for 'Stanley Weintraub' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved Apr 14, 2021.
- ISBN 978-1-57591-008-6.
- S2CID 257878564.
- ^ a b c d "Penn State Libraries". Archived from the original on Feb 28, 2013. Retrieved Apr 14, 2021.
- .
- ^ Koenig, Rhoda (16 March 1987). "review of Victoria: An Intimate Biography by Stanley Weintraub". New York Magazine. pp. 79–80.
- ^ Kennedy, David M. (July 2, 2000). "review of MacArthur's War: Korea and the Undoing of an American Hero by Stanley Weintraub". The New York Times Book Reviews. 105 (27): 16.
- ^ "Stanley Weintraub". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
- ^ "Undergraduate Catalog 2014-2015 (Honors and Awards) - West Chester University". www.wcupa.edu. Retrieved Apr 14, 2021.
External links
- Lecture on Pearl Harbor Christmas at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library
- Obituary at Penn State website
- Appearances on C-SPAN
