The Scarlet Professor (Magill’s Literary Annual 2002)
At a glance:
- Author: Barry Werth
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1924-1963
- Setting: Northampton, Massachusetts; Valparaiso, Indiana; Nantucket, Massachusetts; Saratoga Springs, White Plains, and New York City, New York
- Principal Characters: (Frederick) Newton Arvin, Truman Capote, David Lilienthal, Van Wyck Brooks, Wendell Stacy Johnson, Ned Stofford, Joel Dorius, Mary Garrison Arvin, Thomas Mendenhall, Helen H. Bacon, John Regan
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Twentieth century, New York City, Literature, 1940’s, Midwest, 1920’s, 1930’s, New England, Massachusetts, Literary criticism, Indiana
- Locales: New York, NY, Indiana, Nantucket Island, Northampton, MA, Saratoga Springs, NY
Newton Arvin’s fragile world tumbled around him on September 2, 1960, when five policemen in two unmarked Ford automobiles arrived in front of his modest apartment at 45 Prospect Street in Northampton, Massachusetts. They entered the building that stood only a short walk from Smith College, a prestigious women’s college, where Arvin had taught for thirty-seven years and was Mary Augusta Jordan Professor of English, the most distinguished professorship in his department. The police officers ascended two narrow, winding flights of stairs and pounded aggressively on Arvin’s door. It...
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