Janet Groth

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Janet Groth (born November 15, 1936 ) is an American writer and university professor .

Life

Groth comes from the American Midwest . From 1957 to 1978 she worked for the weekly newspaper The New Yorker in various positions. During these years, thanks to the magazine's generosity, she was able to obtain a Master of Arts degree, PhD , teach at various universities and travel extensively in Europe.

Groth's teaching venues include Vassar College and Brooklyn College . In 1978 she went to the University of Cincinnati . She was a lecturer in the Fulbright program in Norway , visiting professor at Yale University and most recently taught English in the summer courses at Columbia University in Manhattan , New York City . She has retired as professor at the State University of New York in Plattsburgh . She lives in New York City.

She published three books on the literary critic Edmund Wilson . Her autobiography The Receptionist was published in 2012 .

Publications

  • Edmund Wilson. A Critic for Our Time. Ohio University Press, Athens 1989, ISBN 0-8214-0919-0 .
  • Editor, with David Castronovo: From the uncollected Edmund Wilson. Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 1995, ISBN 0-8214-1127-6 .
  • with David Castronovo: Edmund Wilson: The Man in Letters . Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 2001, ISBN 0-8214-1420-8 .
  • with David Castronovo: Critic in Love. A Romantic Biography of Edmund Wilson. Shoemaker & Hoard, Emeryville 2005, ISBN 1-59376-050-7 .
  • The receptionist. An Education at "The New Yorker". Algonquin Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA 2012, ISBN 978-1-61620-131-9 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This is not a revelation book , Medienwoche , September 27, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Groth, Janet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1936