Louis Decimus Decimus RUBIN

Background

RUBIN, Louis was born on November 19, 1923 in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. Son of Louis Decimus Rubin, Senior and Janet Weinstein Rubin.

Education

Student, College of Charleston, 1940-1942; Doctor of Letters (honorary), College of Charleston, 1989; AB, U. Richmond, 1946; Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Richmond, 1972; Master of Arts, Johns Hopkins University, 1949; Doctor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, 1954; Doctor of Letters (honorary), Clemson U., 1986; Doctor of Letters (honorary), University of the South, 1991.

Career

Executive Secretary American Studies Association 1954-1956 (also former Vice-President). Association; Professor, of English, then Professor, and Chairman English Department 67. Professor, of English University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1967-1972, University Distinguished Professor 1972-1979.

Visiting Professor Louisiana.

State University, University of Calif, at Santa Barbara, Harvard University. Lecturer, Aix-Marseille at Nice, Kyoto Summer American Studies Seminars.

USICA, Austria, Germany. Director Algonquin Books, Chapel Hill since 1982.

Former President Society for Study of Southern Literature.

Former Chairman American Literature Section, Modern Language Association. Writer in the South 1972, William Elliott Shoots a Bear 1975, The Wary Fugitives 1978, Surfaces of a Diamond (novel) 1981, A Gallery of Southerners 1982, The Even-Tempered Angler 1984. Editor: Southern Renascence 1953, Idea of an American Novel 1961, South 1961, Comic Imagination in American Literature 1973, The Literary South 1979, American South 1980, The History of Southern Literature 1985, An Apple for My Teacher 1986, The Edge of the Swamp: a study in the Literature and Society of the Old South 1989, Algonquin Literary Quiz Book 1990.

Achievements

• Louis Decimus Rubin has been listed as a notable literature educator, publisher, writer by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • The Summer the Archduke Died: On Wars and Warriors

    ( When World War II erupted, fifteen-year-old Louis Rubin...)

  • The Heat of the Sun: A Novel

    (With perfect pitch and an unerring eye for detail, Rubin ...)

  • Small Craft Advisory: A Book About the Building of a Boat

    ( Small Craft Advisory is an enchanting book about Louis ...)

  • A Memory of Trains : The Boll Weevil and Others

    (A pictorial memoir of railroading during the days when tr...)

  • The Even-Tempered Angler: Being a Treatise in Praise of the Fine Art of Bottom Fishing

    (A delightful book that focuses on the delights of bottom ...)

  • The Edge of the Swamp: A Study in the Literature and Society of the Old South

    ( The flowering of literary imagination known as the Amer...)

  • Seaports of the South: A Journey

    (A romantic and historical look at the most interesting se...)

  • George W. Cable: the life and times of a Southern heretic (Pegasus American authors)

    (Not only a biography this book also analyzes all of Cable...)

  • A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Southern Literature

    (A comprehensive bibliography of southern literature. Intr...)

  • The Curious Death of the Novel; Essays in American Literature

    (These essays selected from Louis D. Rubin's critical work...)

  • The comic imagination in American literature

    (Book by Rubin, Louis Decimus)

  • The writer in the South;: Studies in literary community (Mercer University. Lamar memorial lectures, no. 15)

    (Book by Rubin, Louis Decimus)

  • The Wary Fugitives: Four Poets (Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History)

    (Book by Rubin, Louis D. Jr.)

  • The Curious Death of the Novel: Essays in American Literature

    (Book by Rubin, Louis D. Jr.)

  • The Algonquin Literary Quiz Book

    (Rubin, Louis D.DESCRIP_ALLOWED)

  • An Honorable Estate - My Time in the Workding
  • The Quotable Baseball Fanatic by Rubin Jr., Louis (2004) Hardcover
  • William Elliott Shoots A Bear: Essays On the Southern Literary Imagination
  • (Edge of the Swamp) Author: Louis D. Rubin published on (September, 1999)
  • Small Craft Advisory: A Book About the Building of a Boat Reprint edition by Rubin Jr., Louis D. (1994) Paperback
  • The Wary Fugitives: Four Poets and the South (Southern Literary Studies) by Louis Decimus, Jr. Rubin (1978-01-01)
  • The Curious Death of the Novel: Essays in American Literature
  • A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Southern Literature more tools (Southern Literary Studies)
  • Lasting South, the
  • Thomas Wolfe: The Weather of His Youth
  • Thomas Wolfe;: The weather of his youth
  • Small Craft Advisory
  • The Algonquin Literary Quiz Book by Louis D. Rubin (2000-02-25)
  • THE FARAWAY COUNTRY: Writers of the Modern South
  • The Quotable Baseball Fanatic
  • Seaports of the South: A Journey by Louis Decimus Rubin (1998-09-04)
  • The Algonquin Literary Quiz Book by Louis D. Rubin (2000-02-25)
  • The Teller in the Tale.

Membership

Served with Army of the United States, 1943-1946. Fellow Southern Writers (chancellor 1991-1993). Member Society Study Southern Literature (president 1975-1976), Phi Beta Kappa.

Interests

• Baseball, classical music, reading.

Connections

Married Eva M. Redfield, June 2, 1951. Children: Robert Alden, William Louis.

Father:

Louis Decimus Rubin

Mother:

Janet (Weinstein) Rubin

Spouse:

Eva M. Redfield

child:

Robert Alden Rubin

child:

William Louis Rubin