Background
Chapman was born on July 20, 1927 in Rusk, Texas, United States; the son of Gerald Benson and Eunice (Wester) Chapman.
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Chapman was born on July 20, 1927 in Rusk, Texas, United States; the son of Gerald Benson and Eunice (Wester) Chapman.
Chapman received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1949 and a Master of Arts degree in 1951 from the Southern Methodist University. Six years later he was given a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Harvard University.
Chapman began his career as an instructor at Northwestern University in 1954. Three years later he took a position of an instructor at Harvard University. Then in 1960, Gerald was appointed a lecturer at the same university. Also he worked as an assistant professor at the University of Texas from 1961 to 1962.
In 1962, he served as an associate professor of English at the University of Denver. Since 1965 Chapman was a professor at the same university. In addition, he held the position of Phipps Professor at the University of Denver in 1967-1976. Gerald was a visiting professor at Harvard University in 1968, 1970.
Nowadays he is a professor emeritus at the University of Denver.
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2016On December 31, 1950 Gerald Chapman married Ruth Rimmer, with whom he divorced in 1967. They have 2 children. On December, 1968, he married Karen Carbone, with whom he divorced in 1972.