Fussell, Paul
Fussell, Paul( 1924– ),southern Californiaborn professor of English literature at the University of Pennsylvania, has intellectual interests far beyond his fine early books, Poetic Meter and Poetic Form (1965) and Samuel Johnson and the Life of Writing (1971). He has long been noted for his social and intellectual history of modern English and American life as represented in The Great War and Modern Memory (1975, National Book Award), on attitudes toward World War I; and Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War (1989). He has also written Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars (1980) and The Anti-Egotist: Kingsley Amis, Man of Letters (1994).
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