Edwin Harrison Cady

Background

Cady, Edwin Harrison was born on November 9, 1917 in Old Tappan, New Jersey, United States. Son of Edwin Laird and Ethel Sprague (Harrison) Cady.

Education

AB, Ohio Wesleyan University, 1939. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Ohio Wesleyan University, 1964. Master of Arts, University Cincinnati, 1940.

Doctor of Philosophy, University Wisconsin, 1943. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Oklahoma City University, 1967. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Georgetown University, 1989.

Career

Instructor English, University of Wisconsin, 1945; Instructor English, Ohio State University, 1946; from assistant professor to professor, Syracuse University, 1946-1959; Rudy Professor of English, Indiana U., 1959-1973; Professor of English, Duke U., 1973-1987; Andrew W. Mellon professor humanities, Duke U., 1975-1987; professor emeritus, Duke U., since 1987. Visiting professor American literature, Uppsala and Stockholm, Sweden, 1951-1952.

Achievements

• Edwin Harrison Cady has been listed as a notable English language educator, author by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • The Road to Realism: The Early Years of William Dean Howells, 1837-1885

    (This first volume in a two-volume biography of William De...)

  • The Road to Realism: The Early Years 1837-1886 of William Dean Howells

    ( This first volume in a two-volume biography of William ...)

  • John Woolman: The Mind of the Quaker Saint

    (John Woolman's lectures, writings, and personal influence...)

  • Literature of the Early Republic

    (An anthology of American literature from the late 18th ce...)

  • Young Howells and John Brown: Episodes in a Radical Education

    (Book by Cady, Edwin H.)

  • Light of Common Day : Realism in American Fiction
  • Literature of the Early Republic
  • The Realist at War: The Mature Years 1885-1920 of William Dean Howells
  • The Realist at War: The Mature Years, 1885-1920, of William Dean Howells
  • The Road to Realism: The Early Years of William Dean Howells, 1837-1885 by Edwin Harrison Cady (2011-10-15)
  • THE ROAD TO REALISM. The early years l837-l885 of William Dean Howells.
  • (The Road to Realism: Early Years, 1837-86, of William Dean Howells ) Author: Edwin H. Cady Sep-1986
  • The Realist at War: The Mature Years of William Dean Howells, 1885-1920
  • The Growth of American Literature: A Critical and Historical Survey, Vols One & Two
  • The Road to Realism: The Early Years of William Dean Howells, 1837-1885
  • W.D. Howells, Literary Friends and Acquaintance
  • The Road to Realism: The Early Years, 1837-1885, of William Dean Howells
  • The Realist at War: The Mature Years of William Dean Howells, 1885-1920
  • The Road to Realism: The Early Years 1837-1886 of William Dean Howells (Revised) By Cady, Edwin Harrison ( Author ) Hardcover 1986

Membership

Member of Executive Committee Center American Editions, 1964-1968. Member United States National Common for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 1969-1971. Served with American Field Service, 1943-1944, Italy.

With United States Naval Reserve, 1945. Member Modern Language Association (chairman American literature section 1979, Jay B. Hubbell medal American literature section 1990), Guild Scholars, American Antiquarian Society, Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa, Phi Gamma Delta.

Connections

Married Norma Woodard, August 31, 1939. Children: Frances (Mistress Edward Hitchcock, deceased), Elizabeth (Mistress Larry Saler).

Father:

Edwin Laird Cady

Mother:

Ethel Sprague (Harrison) Cady

Spouse:

Norma Woodard

child:

Elizabeth Cady (Mistress Larry Saler)

child:

deceased) Cady

child:

Frances (Mistress Edward Hitchcock Cady