Paul Fussell Born: 22-Mar-1924 Birthplace: Pasadena, CA Died: 23-May-2012 Location of death: Medford, OR Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Bisexual [1] Occupation: Historian Nationality: United States Executive summary: The Great War and Modern Memory Military service: US Army (WWII, 1943-45, 2nd Lt.) [1] Betty Fussell, My Kitchen Wars (1999): "I opened the door and turned on the light. There were the Professor and the Student, buck naked, as startled as a pair of deer caught in headlights. The Professor tried drunkenly to explain that it had been too late for the Student to get a bus home, so he was going to spend the night on the living-room sofa. I told the boys to put on their clothes."
Father: Paul Fussell, Sr. (attorney, O'Melveny & Myers, b. 1895, d. 1973) Mother: Wilhma Wilson Sill (b. 1894, d. 1971) Brother: Edwin Sill Fussell (English professor, b. 1922, d. 27-Aug-2002) Sister: Florence Fussell Lind Wife: Betty Harper (m. 1949, div. 1981, one daughter, one son) Daughter: Rosalind Fussell ("Tucky", b. 1955) Son: Samuel Wilson Fussell (b. 1958) Wife: Harriette Behringer (m. 1987, until his death)
University: BA, Pomona College (1946) University: MA, Harvard University (1949) University: PhD, Harvard University (1951) Professor: Connecticut College (1951-55) Professor: Rutgers University (1955-83) Professor: University of Pennsylvania (1984-94)
Bronze Star Purple Heart Fulbright
Author of books:
The Great War and Modern Memory The Rhetorical World of Augustan Humanism: Ethics and Imagery from Swift to Burke (1965, criticism) Poetic Meter and Poetic Form (1965, criticism) Theory of Prosody in Eighteenth-Century England (1966, criticism) Samuel Johnson: The Life of Writing (1971, biography) Abroad: British Literary Travelling Between the Wars (1980, criticism) The Boy Scout Handbook and Other Observations (1982, essays) Class: A Guide Through the American Status System (1983, social studies) Thank God For The Atom Bomb and Other Essays (1988, essays) Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War (1989, history) BAD, or, The Dumbing of America (1991, nonfiction) The Anti-Egotist: Kingsley Amis: Man of Letters (1994, biography) Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic (1996, memoir) Uniforms: Why We Are What We Wear (2002, nonfiction) The Boys' Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-1945 (2003, history)
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