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and Abraham Anderson) and a daughter by his first marriage (Martha Haskett Anderson). At the time of his death, he had one grandson, Chase Quentin Anderson.
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after the latter was dismissed from his high school teaching job for his pacifist views. The family then moved to
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Finding aid to Quentin Anderson papers at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
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Professor in the Humanities and was granted a senior fellowship by the
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Quentin thereafter began his long career in academia. He studied with
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in 1945 before returning to Columbia to complete his PhD in 1953.
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in 1973 and 1974. From 1979 to 1980 he was a fellow at the
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Anderson married Thelma Ehrlich in 1947. He had two sons (
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International who's who of authors and writers, Volume 19
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Quentin V. Anderson
Minnewaukan, North Dakota
Morningside Heights, Manhattan
New York
Maxwell
Maxwell Anderson
Columbia University
BA
PhD
Harvard University
MA
Literary criticism
Cultural history
Columbia University
Henry James
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walt Whitman
Minnewaukan, North Dakota
Maxwell Anderson
Palo Alto, California
San Francisco
New York City
Great Depression
Broadway
Jacques Barzun
Lionel Trilling
Columbia University
Harvard University
Rockland County, New York
protests of 1968

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