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Paul Fussell

Born: 22-Mar-1924
Birthplace: Pasadena, CA

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Matter of Dispute [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).

Father: Paul Fussell, Sr. (attorney, O'Melveny & Myers)
Mother: Wilhma Wilson Sill (b. 1894)
Brother: Edwin Sill Fussell (English professor, b. 1922, d. 27-Aug-2002)
Wife: Betty Harper (m. 1949, div. 1987)
Daughter: Rosalind (b. 1955)
Son: Samuel (b. 1958)
Wife: Harriette Behringer (m. 1987)

    University: BA, Pomona College (1946)
    University: PhD, Harvard University (1951)
    Professor: Connecticut College (1951-55)
    Professor: Rutgers University (1955-83)
    Professor: University of Pennsylvania (1984-94)

    Purple Heart

Author of books:
Poetic Meter and Poetic Form (1965)
The Rhetorical World of Augustan Humanism: Ethics and Imagery from Swift to Burke (1965)
Theory of Prosody in Eighteenth-Century England (1966)
Samuel Johnson: The Life of Writing (1971)
English Augustan Poetry (1972)
The Great War and Modern Memory (1975)
Abroad: British Literary Travelling Between the Wars (1980)
The Boy Scout Handbook and Other Observations (1982)
Class: A Guide Through the American Status System (1983)
Caste Marks: Style and Status in the USA (1984)
Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays (1988)
Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War (1989)
BAD: or, The Dumbing of America (1991)
The Anti-Egotist: Kingsley Amis: Man of Letters (1994)
Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic (1996, memoir)
Uniforms: Why We Are What We Wear (2002)
The Boys’ Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-1945 (2003)



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