Elizabeth Sewell, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Elizabeth Sewell

British-American critic, poet, novelist, and professor (1919-2001)

Date of Birth: 09-Mar-1919

Place of Birth: Coonoor, Tamil Nadu, India

Date of Death: 12-Jan-2001

Profession: writer, poet, literary critic, novelist

Nationality: United States, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Elizabeth Sewell

  • Elizabeth Sewell (March 9, 1919 – January 12, 2001) was a British-American critic, poet, novelist, and professor who often wrote about the connections between science and literature.
  • Among her published works were five books of criticism, four novels, three books of poetry, and many short stories, essays, and other work in periodicals in North America and Europe.
  • Of her books, the most widely held by libraries is The Orphic Voice: Poetry and Natural History.Sewell completed the requirements for a bachelor of arts from Cambridge University in 1942.
  • From then to the end of World War II, she worked for the Ministry of Education in London before returning to Cambridge for a master of arts (1945) and a Ph.D.
  • (1949) in modern languages.
  • She first visited the United States in 1949 and became a U.S.
  • citizen in 1973.
  • She taught at Vassar College, the University of Notre Dame, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Fordham University, Tougaloo College, and Hunter College, and she was a visiting professor or writer at other universities.She held a Simon Fellowship at Manchester University (1955-57), a Howard Research Fellowship at Ohio State University (1949-50), an Ashley Fellowship at Trent University (1979), and a Presidential Scholarship at Mercer University (1982).
  • In 1981, she won poetry, fiction, and nonfiction awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.Sewell married Anthony C.
  • Sirignano, a university lecturer in classics, in 1971.
  • She died in 2001 in Greensboro, North Carolina.

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