Joseph Frank

Background

Frank, Joseph was born on December 20, 1916 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of A. Richard and Gertrude (Greenbaum) Frank.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1939; Master of Arts, Harvard, 1947; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard, 1953.

Career

From instructor to Professor of English, U. Rochester, 1948-1967; professor, department chairman English, U. New Mexico, 1967-1969; Professor of English, U. Massachusetts, Amherst, 1969-1985; professor emeritus, U. Massachusetts, since 1985; head Department, University Massachusetts, 1969-1975. Exchange professor of University Kent, Canterbury, England, 1976-1977.

Achievements

• Joseph Frank has been listed as a noteworthy Emeritus English language educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • The Beginnings of the English Newspaper, 1620-1660

    ("A work of art needs no preamble; most works of scholarsh...)

  • Hobbled Pegasus: A Descriptive Bibliography of Minor English Poetry 1641-1660.

    (Albuquerque 1968 1st University of New Mexico. Sm.4to., 4...)

  • The doomed astronaut

    (Book by Frank, Joseph)

  • Hobbled Pegasus a Descriptive Bibliography of Mino
  • The Levellers a History of the Writings of Three Seventeenth-Century Social Democrats: John Lilburne, Richard Overton, William Walwyn
  • The Doomed Astronaut
  • The New Look in Politics, McCarthy's Campaign (Vol 38, No. 2, Summer 1969)
  • Hobbled Pegasus; a descriptive bibliography of minor English poetry, 1641-1660
  • The Levellers
  • Hobbled Pegasus a Descriptive Bibliograp

Membership

President Genesee Valley, American Civil Liberties Union, 1965, member New Mexico board, 1967-1969. Served with American Field Service, 1942. Served with Army of the United States, 1943-1945.

Member Association Departments of English (executive board, past president).

Connections

Married Margery Goodkind, February 1, 1941. Children– Thomas, Peter, Andrew (deceased). Married Florence Stanton Clark Zartman, January 24, 1969.

Father:

A. Richard Frank

Mother:

Gertrude (Greenbaum) Frank

Spouse:

Florence Stanton Clark Zartman

Spouse:

Margery Goodkind

child:

Thomas Frank

child:

Andrew Frank (deceased)

child:

Peter Frank