Background
Mary Grenander was born on November 21, 1918 in Rewey, Wisconsin, United States, into the family of Carl John and Mary Matilda (Whitney) Grenander.
Mary Elizabeth Grenander received an Bachelor of Arts (1940), Master of Arts (1941), and Doctor of Philosophy (1948) from the University of Chicago, each in English.
(Ambrose Bierce is one of the most colorful figures in Ame...)
Ambrose Bierce is one of the most colorful figures in American literary history. A writer whose Devil's Dictionary remains the delight of misanthropes and fans of satire throughout the English-speaking world, he was also a master of the short story form. From the late 1860s through the early 1900s, he worked as a journalist, gaining wide renown in the 1890s and 1900s as a satirical columnist for William Randolph Hearst’s chain of newspapers. In 1913 Bierce traveled to Mexico and joined Pancho Villa’s army as an observer. He disappeared late that year and his fate has been a matter of dispute ever since. The poems that Bierce wrote throughout his career are less well known than his stories, journalistic pieces, and aphoristic observations on human folly.
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Mary Grenander was born on November 21, 1918 in Rewey, Wisconsin, United States, into the family of Carl John and Mary Matilda (Whitney) Grenander.
Mary Elizabeth Grenander received an Bachelor of Arts (1940), Master of Arts (1941), and Doctor of Philosophy (1948) from the University of Chicago, each in English.
Devoting more than forty years to teaching, Grenander had a fascination for the works of nineteenth-century American author Ambrose Bierce. She analyzed Bierce’s horror stories as well as his poetry. Before joining the faculty at the State University of New York — Albany in 1948 as an instructor, she served in the U.S. Naval Reserve during World War II and became a lieutenant senior grade.
She was also the Midwest Women's Fencing Champion in 1947. By 1961 she rose to the rank of professor of English at the university. From 1977 to 1980 she was director of the school’s Institute for Humanistic Studies. In addition to teaching at SUNY, she donated more than one million dollars to the school. During her career, she also was Fulbright professor and the University of Toulouse and the University of Lille, vice president of the Humanities and Technology Association, and president of the New York American Studies Association.
Grenander penned several books, including "A Record of Research and Creative Activity: State University of New York, July 1, 1948 to June 30, 1957", "Helios: From Myth to Solar Energy", "Apollo Agonistes: The Humanities in a Computerized World", "Asclepius at Syracuse: Thomas Szasz, Libertarian Humanist, and Ambrose Bierce."
In 1995 Poems of Ambrose Bierce" was published with Grenander serving as editor and author of its introduction. She and her second husband, James Corbett (a professor of physics at SUNY), prospered through long-term investment in the stock market, and she was able to contribute $1 million to SUNY in his memory after his death in 1994. Grenander died in East Berne, New York, at 79 years of age.
(Ambrose Bierce is one of the most colorful figures in Ame...)
1996Mary Elizabeth Grenander married Jean Louis Anclair on July 21, 1962 but they divorced in July 1969. Then she married James William Corbett on May 5, 1972.