Jay Parini

Raised in Pennsylvania and educated at Lafayette College before earning a doctorate at the University of St Andrews, he began an academic career that spanned Dartmouth and Middlebury, where he held the D. E. Axinn Professorship and now serves as professor emeritus. Co-founding the New England Review in 1976, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1992 and fellowships at Oxford and the Institute fo… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources