[2] American Culture's Debt to Gay Sons of Harvard (Dinitia Smith, The New York Times, 29th May 2003.) See also The Crimson Letter: Harvard, Homosexuality and the Shaping of American Culture (2003), by Douglass Shand-Tucci.
Father: William Frederick Matthiessen
Mother: Lucy Orne
Boyfriend: Russell Cheney (painter, cohabited, dated 1923 until d. 1945)
University: BA, Yale University (1919-23, honors)
University: B Litt, Oxford University (1925)
University: MA, Harvard University (1926)
University: PhD, Harvard University (1927)
Rhodes Scholarship
Skull and Bones Society
Nervous Breakdown 1938/39 (hospitalized)
Author of books:
Sarah Orne Jewett (1929)
Translation: An Elizabethan Art (1931)
The Achievements of T. S. Eliot (1935)
American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman (1941)
Henry James (1944)
The James Family (1947)
Russell Cheney, 1881-1945: A Record of His Work (1947)
Theodore Dreiser (1951)
The Responsibilities of the Critic (1952)
