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Robert DeMott (born November 22, 1943) is an American author, scholar, and editor best known for his influential scholarship on writer John Steinbeck, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Grapes of Wrath (1939), and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. Life Robert DeMott was born in New Canaan, Connecticut, in 1943, the only child of James and Colletta DeMott. Until the age of eight, he lived with his parents on the estate of well known political artist and fine-art illuminator Arthur Szyk, who published The New Order (1941) and Ink & Blood (1946) and illustrated numerous Biblical and literary texts, as well as the 1948 Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel. In 1951, DeMott's family moved to Norwalk, CT, where he attended and then graduated from Norwalk High School in 1961. He was educated at Assumption College, John Carroll University, and Kent State University, where he earned his B.A. (1965), M.A. (1967), and Ph.D. (1969), respectively. His doctoral dissertation, The Eccentric Orbit: Dimensions of the Creative Process in Thoreau's Major Writings, was directed by Howard P. Vincent. DeMott was married twice: to Michelle Hurley in 1965 (divorced 1980), and to Andrea Berger in 1992 (divorced 2005). He has one child, Elizabeth, with his first wife. DeMott lives in Athens, OH, with his partner, writer and editor Kate Fox. DeMott is currently Edwin and Ruth Kennedy Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, an endowed position he was awarded in 1998. After 381⁄2 years DeMott retired from full-time teaching in April, 2007, and continued to teach one academic quarter per year under Ohio University's Phased Retirement program until 2013, when he retired completely. His correspondence with writers John Haines, Jim Harrison, Dave Smith, and Laura Kalpakian, and film maker Pare Lorentz is at, respectively, the following libraries: Beinecke Library, Yale University; Special Collections and University Archives, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI; The Robert E. and Jean R. Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, Alden Library, Ohio University, Athens, OH; Special Collections, Charles Young Research Library, UCLA;and Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, NY. His collection of signed and inscribed first edition books and fine press chapbooks by poets William Heyen and Michael Waters is also housed at Ohio University's Mahn Center. A lifelong fly fisherman, DeMott is an International Federation of Fly Fishers Certified Casting Instructor, a graduate of Western Rivers Professional Guide School, a member of both the American Museum of Fly Fishing and the Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum, Theodore Gordon Flyfishers, The Anglers' Club of New York, and a life member of Trout Unlimited. He has written on fly fishing in Trout, Yale Angler's Journal, Gray's Sporting Journal, and American Angler, and Bulletin of Anglers' Club of New York, where he is a member of the editorial board. Career DeMott began his academic career as assistant professor of American literature at Ohio University in 1969. From 1973 to 1979, he and colleague Dave Smith co-edited the Back Door, a poetry magazine that Smith had founded in 1969. DeMott also created an English course on living writers, team-taught with colleague Carol Harter, that featured such writers as Walter Tevis, Hollis Summers, Jack Matthews, Wayne Dodd, Daniel Keyes, James Norman Schmidt, and others. DeMott became a full professor at Ohio University in 1979. He designed and taught the first courses at Ohio University on women's fiction, environmental writing, fly fishing literature, and doctoral student pedagogy. He received five undergraduate teaching awards, including University Professor, Grasselli Faculty Teaching Award in the Humanities, and Honors Tutorial College's Outstanding Tutor Award, as well as the Outstanding Graduate Professor Award. DeMott directed twenty-one Ph.D. dissertations on a wide range of American literary topics and four in creative writing (poetry), many of which were published as full-length books. DeMott's primary scholarly attention focuses on novelist John Steinbeck. He has published numerous books and more than seventy articles and essays on Steinbeck. In 1984, after many years of archival research, he published the first book of a scholarly trilogy on Steinbeck: Steinbeck's Reading: A Catalogue of Books Owned and Borrowed, a look into the reading habits and reconstructed print library of the famous author. Widely referenced, Steinbeck's Reading is considered an essential resource in Steinbeck studies. In 1989, DeMott published his edition of Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath, 1938–1941. This book was an extensively annotated volume of the journal kept by Steinbeck during the five months he was writing The Grapes of Wrath. Working Days was a New York Times Notable Book for 1989, one of the year's ten best books listed by the San Diego Union, and among the twenty recommended books for 1989 by Writers Digest magazine. It has been translated into Japanese and Chinese. Finally, DeMott's third book in the trilogy, Steinbeck's Typewriter: Essays on His Art, was published in 1996. Through the Author's Guild, it was reprinted in paperback in 2012 by iUniverse, with a new preface. The book collects nine fully revised and updated essays published by DeMott between 1980 and 1995. Of this trilogy, eminent Steinbeck scholar John Ditsky writes in John Steinbeck and the Critics: "DeMott's trilogy is unique, not simply formalistically. No one else has done anything like it in terms of original coverage." In 1984-85, DeMott took leave from Ohio University to become a visiting professor of English and director of the Steinbeck Research Center at San Jose State University in California, for which he acquired $85,000 in scholarly materials, most of them unpublished correspondence and manuscripts. He helped launch, then served on, the editorial board of the Steinbeck Quarterly for its entire run, from 1969 to 1988, and he served on the editorial board of the Steinbeck Newsletter (later Steinbeck Studies) from 1994 to 2005, and is also since 2015 on the Editorial Board of Steinbeck Review. 1n 1987 DeMott was awarded Ball State University's Burkhardt Prize for Outstanding Contributions to Steinbeck Studies, and in 2006 he received the National Steinbeck Museum's Trustees Award at a ceremony in Salinas, CA. DeMott is an internationally respected expert on Steinbeck, having written authoritative introductions and notes for three Steinbeck novels in Penguin Book's Classic Series—The Grapes of Wrath (1992, rev. 2006); To a God Unknown (1996), and Sweet Thursday (2008). He also served as main editor for three volumes of the Library of America's series on Steinbeck—Novels and Stories, 1932–1937 (1994); The Grapes of Wrath and Other Writings, 1936–1941 (1996); and Novels, 1942–1952 (2001)—and co-edited a fourth—Travels with Charl.... Discover the Robert Demott Dave Smith Richard Ford popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Robert Demott Dave Smith Richard Ford books.
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The Great Gatsby
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Dracula
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