Background
August John Nigro was born on the 11th of December, 1934 in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States.
August Nigro
1000 River Rd, Teaneck, NJ 07666, United States
August Nigro studied at Fairleigh Dickinson University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1958.
501 E High St, Oxford, OH 45056, United States
August Nigro earned a Master of Arts degree from Miami University in 1960.
University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, United States
August Nigro attended the University of Maryland, where he obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1963.
1000 River Rd, Teaneck, NJ 07666, United States
August Nigro studied at Fairleigh Dickinson University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1958.
501 E High St, Oxford, OH 45056, United States
August Nigro earned a Master of Arts degree from Miami University in 1960.
University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, United States
August Nigro attended the University of Maryland, where he obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1963.
(This work suggests that the understanding of American lit...)
This work suggests that the understanding of American literature can be expanded through an examination of the universal symbolic pattern that underlies the Adamic myth - the pattern of separation from and reparation with the boundless.
https://www.amazon.com/Diagonal-Line-Separation-Reparation-Literature/dp/0941664023
1984
(The dramatic World War II story of a United States bomber...)
The dramatic World War II story of a United States bomber crew's fateful mission, the airmen's lynching by an enraged mob in Russelsheim and the extraordinary war crimes trial that sent five German citizens to the gallows.
https://www.amazon.com/Wolfsangel-German-City-Trial-1945-48/dp/1574882457
2000
(The Net of Nemesis examines the trope of tragic bond/age,...)
The Net of Nemesis examines the trope of tragic bond/age, in which humanity is the beneficiary of bonds that nurture and unite and the victim of bondage that confines and restrains.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Net-Nemesis-Studies-Tragic-Bond/dp/1575910365
2000
August John Nigro was born on the 11th of December, 1934 in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States.
August Nigro studied at Fairleigh Dickinson University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1958. Two years later, he earned a Master of Arts degree from Miami University. Also, he attended the University of Maryland, where he obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1963.
August Nigro began to work in 1958 as an English teaching assistant at the University of Miami, where he served until 1960. After that, he joined the University of Maryland, where he held the same post for three years. Besides, he served as a lecturer at the University of Maryland Global Campus Europe in Kaiserslautern in 1963-1965. Between 1965 and 1967, he served at Niagara University as an assistant professor. In 1967, he joined Kutztown University of Pennsylvania in Kutztown as a professor of English. Also, Nigro taught courses abroad for the Pennsylvania Consortium for International Education entitled "Thomas Hardy and D. H. Lawrence: Literature and Landscape" at Mansfield College, Oxford, and "William Butler Yeats and James Joyce: Literature and Landscape" at Trinity College, Dublin.
August John Nigro wrote three books. His first book, The Diagonal Line: Separation and Reparation in American Literature, came out in 1984. In 2000, he published The Net of Nemesis: Studies in Tragic Bond/Age. Nigro's best-known work is Wolfsangel: A German City on Trial 1945-48 (2000), which documents the downing of an American B-24 bomber crew over Germany during World War II, as well as its aftermath.
Currently, August is a Professor Emeritus at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania.
August Nigro is mostly known as the author of books, who writes about literary criticism and history. Also, he is a well-known retired educator. He has been awarded grants to direct the National Endowment for the Humanities Seminars for School Teachers. In 1976-1977, he was named the National Endowment for the Humanities fellow-in-residence. Between 1988 and 1991, he received the National Endowment for the Humanities secondary school summer seminar directorship in Oxford, England. In 1993, he got the United States Information Agency Summer Institute for Education directorship.
In a review of Nigro's book Wolfsangel: A German City on Trial 1945-48, a contributor to Choice noted, that the book "may be compared favorably with such seminal works, as Henry Nash Smith's Virgin Land (1950), R. W. B. Lewis's The American Adam (1955) and Leo Marx's The Machine in the Garden (1964)." The reviewer further stated, that "the scope of the book is broad and includes discussions of such classics as The Scarlet Letter, Moby Dick, Huckleberry Finn, All the Kings Men and Invisible Man."
(This work suggests that the understanding of American lit...)
1984(The dramatic World War II story of a United States bomber...)
2000(The Net of Nemesis examines the trope of tragic bond/age,...)
2000August Nigro is married to Ruth. They have three children - Amy, Augustine and Jonathan.
