Background
Kelly Wise was born on December 1, 1932, in New Castle, Indiana, United States.
Kelly Wise was born on December 1, 1932, in New Castle, Indiana, United States.
Kelly Wise received a Master of Arts in Contemporary Literature from Columbia University, New York City, in 1959, and a Bachelor of Science in Creative Writing from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, in 1955.
Kelly Wise has been an instructor of English since 1966 at the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and chairman of the English Department there since 1978; he also served as residential dean at the academy from 1969 to 1973. Prior to that, Kelly Wise taught English at Mount Hermon School (1960-1966).