Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1919, June 11 | Born, New York, N.Y. |
| 1940 | A.B., Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y. Married Shirley Jackson (died 1965) |
| 1940-1970 | Staff writer, New Yorker |
| 1945-1946 | Faculty member, Bennington College, Bennington, Vt. |
| 1948 | Published The Armed Vision (New York: A. A. Knopf. 417 pp.) |
| 1953-1970 | Faculty member, Bennington College, Bennington, Vt. |
| 1956 | Published The Critical Performance (New York: Vintage Books. 337 pp.) |
| 1959 | Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies |
| 1961 | Published Poetry and Criticism (New York: Atheneum. 178 pp.) |
| 1961-1965 | Literary critic, New Leader |
| 1962 | Published Nathanael West (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 48 pp.) Published The Tangled Bank (New York: Atheneum. 492 pp.) |
| 1963 | Published Darwin for Today (New York: Viking Press. 435 pp.) Published The Promised End (Cleveland: World Publishing Co. 380 pp.) |
| 1966 | Married Phoebe Pettingell Published Flannery O'Connor (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 48 pp.) Published Standards (New York: Horizon Press. 286 pp.) |
| 1967 | National Institute of Arts and Letters award in literary criticism |
| 1970 | Visiting professor, State University of New York, Buffalo, N.Y. Published Iago (New York: Atheneum. 180 pp.) |
| 1970, July 29 | Died, Bennington, Vt. |