Smith, Paul 1925-1996

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Smith, Paul 1925-1996

PERSONAL:

Born December 23, 1925, in Rochester, NY; died of cancer, 1996. Education: Graduated from University of Rochester; Harvard University, Ph. D.

CAREER:

Trinity College, Hartford, CT, 1959-1996, became professor emeritus. Military service: United States Army, served during World War II.

MEMBER:

Hemingway Society (founder), Hemingway Foundation.

WRITINGS:

(With Robert Foulke) Anatomy of Literature, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1972.

Pound Revised, Croom Helm (London, England), 1983.

A Reader's Guide to the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway, G.K. Hall (Boston, MA), 1989.

(Editor) New Essays on Hemingway's Short Fiction, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 1998.

Also author of Grading the Advanced Placement Examination in English Language and Composition: A Report, Advanced Placement Program of the College Board (Princeton, NJ), 1983. Contributor of articles to Hemingway Review.

SIDELIGHTS:

The late Paul Smith was widely respected for his expertise on the American author Ernest Hemingway. He founded the Hemingway Society, an international organization dedicated to study and discussion of the author. His book A Reader's Guide to the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway offers detailed information on the composition, background, publication, and criticism of every one of the short stories Hemingway published during his lifetime. Robert W. Lewis, writing in the Hemingway Review, called it "a remarkable work of scholarship" and an "extremely important addition" to studies on Hemingway. Smith's personal papers are held at the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

British Book News, July, 1983, Michael Wood, review of Pound Revised, p. 445.

Choice, December, 1989, W.M. Gargan, review of A Reader's Guide to the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway, p. 616; October, 1998, M.J. Madigan, review of New Essays on Hemingway's Short Fiction, p. 318.

Hemingway Review, fall, 1989, Robert W. Lewis, review of A Reader's Guide to the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway, p. 102.

Studies in Short Fiction, fall, 1989, review of A Reader's Guide to the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway, pp. 574-575.