Richard Milton Ludwig

Background

Richard M. Ludwig was born on November 24, 1920, in Reading, Pennsylvania, United States. He was the son of Ralph O. and Millie M. Ludwig.

Education

In 1942 Richard M. Ludwig received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan. In 1943 he obtained a Master of Arts degree from Harvard University. In 1950 Ludwig gained a Doctor of Philosophy degree from this university.

Career

After graduation from university, Richard M. Ludwig immediately joined the Princeton University faculty as an instructor, becoming a full professor of English in 1968. In 1974 he took on the additional work of an assistant, then associate librarian of rare books and special collections at the university. In this capacity, he added numerous books to the collection by important twentieth-century authors such as L. Scott Fitzgerald, Aldous Huxley, and Ernest Hemingway, as well as works by other important figures, including Woodrow Wilson and Adlai Stevenson.

He retired as an emeritus professor in 1986 after being honored with the prestigious McCosh faculty fellowship, as well as a bicentennial preceptorship. With Howard Mumford Jones, Ludwig was the author of the Guide to American Literature and Its Backgrounds since 1890 (third edition, 1964; fourth edition, 1972), and he also edited and co-edited a number of other scholarly publications, among them, Aspects of American Poetry: Essays Presented to Howard Mumford Jones (1963) and Dr. Panofsky and Mr. Tarkington (1974).

Achievements

• Richard M. Ludwig was an authority on American literature. As an associate University librarian at Princeton University, Ludwig is credited with expanding the library's special collections, particularly holdings of significant 20th-century American authors. He received many university awards, including a Bicentennial Preceptorship and a McCosh Faculty Fellowship.

Works

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  • Guide to American Literature and Its Backgrounds since 1890 1964
  • Literary History of the United States: Bibliography Supplement 1959
  • Aspects of American Poetry: Essays Presented to Howard Mumford Jones 1963
  • Dr Panofsky And Mr Tarkington: An Exchange of Letters, 1938-1946 1974

Membership

Richard M. Ludwig was a member of the Modern Language Association and the American Studies Association.

Connections

Richard M. Ludwig didn't have his own family.

Father:

Ralph O. Ludwig

Mother:

Millie M. Ludwig

colleague:

Howard Jones

References

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