Background
Fitzgerald, Robert was born on October 12, 1910 in Geneva, New York, United States. Son of Robert Emmet and Anne Montague (Stuart) Fitzgerald.
Fitzgerald, Robert was born on October 12, 1910 in Geneva, New York, United States. Son of Robert Emmet and Anne Montague (Stuart) Fitzgerald.
Student, Trinity College, Cambridge (England) University, 1931-1932.
In addition, he also composed several books of his own poetry. He entered Harvard in 1929, and in 1931 a number of his poems were published in Poetry magazine. After graduating from Harvard in 1933 he became a reporter for The New York Herald Tribune for a year.
Later he worked several years for TIME magazine, as mentioned by Whittaker Chambers in his 1952 memoir, Witness.
In World World War II, he served in the United States. Navy in Guam and Pearl Harbor. Later he was an instructor at Sarah Lawrence and Princeton University, poetry editor of The New Republic.
He succeeded Archibald MacLeish as Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard in 1965 and served until his retirement in 1981. In 1984 Fitzgerald received a Doctor of Humane Letters from Bates College.
Fitzgerald is widely known as one of the most poetic translators into the English language.
He also served as literary executor to Flannery O"Connor, who was a boarder at his home in Redding, Connecticut, from 1949 to 1951. Fitzgerald"s wife at the time, Sally Fitzgerald, compiled O"Connor"s essays and letters after O"Connor"s death. Benedict Fitzgerald, Barnaby Fitzgerald and Michael Fitzgerald are sons of Robert and Sally.
Fitzgerald was married three times.
He later moved to Hamden, Connecticut, where he died at his home after a long illness. In the Rose of Time:, 1939-1956.
Spring Shade:, 1931-1970. Editor Robert Fitzgerald, educated
(1969). The Collected of James Agee.
Calder and Boyars. James Agee (1976). Robert Fitzgerald, educated The Collected Short Prose of James Agee.
Cherokee Publishing Company.
. Flannery O"Connor (1969). Sally Fitzgerald, Robert Fitzgerald, educated
Mystery and manners: occasional prose. Macmillan. Flannery O"Connor (1965).
Sally Fitzgerald, Robert Fitzgerald, educated
Everything that rises must converge. Macmillan.
Fellow American Institute Arts and Letters (award 1957), American Academy Arts and Sciences, Academy American Poets (chancellor 1968). Clubs: Harvard (New York City).
Married Sarah Morgan, April. Married Penelope Laurans, May 16, 1982. Children: Hugh Linane, Benedict Robert Campion, Maria Juliana, Peter Michael Augustine, Barnaby John Francis, Caterina Maria Teresa.