Background

Berne was born on June 8, 1923 in Port Richmond, New York City, New York, United States; the son of William and Irene (Daniels) Berne.

Education

Berne received a Bachelor of Science degree from Rutgers University in 1951. A year later he earned his Master of Arts degree from New York University.

Career

Berne began his career as a teaching fellow at Louisiana State University in 1954. Six years later he took a position of an associate professor of English at Eastern New Mexico University. Then in 1980, Stanley became a research associate professor of English at the same university.

Also he was a professor of literature at Eastern New Mexico University. In addition to his teaching career, he participated in the Liberation of the Philippines from the Japanese.

Achievements

• Berne was one of the first Americans to visit and report from the ground at Hiroshima, after the bomb was dropped, as a member of the American Occupation Forces in Japan.

Works

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• book

  • The Great American Empire

    (A novel in which an elderly poet looks back at his life a...)

    1982
  • Every Person's Little Book of P-L-U-T-O-N-I-U-M 1992
  • Future language Archives of postmodern literature 1976

Membership

Berne is a member of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists Association and Rio Grande Writers Association.

Interests

• painting

Connections

On May 17, 1952 Stanley Berne married Arlene (Zekowski) Berne.

Father:

William Berne

Mother:

Irene (Daniels) Berne

Spouse:

Arlene Zekowski Berne