Background
Howard-Hill, Trevor Howard was born on October 17, 1933 in Wellington, New Zealand. Came to the United States 1972. Son of Roland Henry and Dulcie Helena (Howard) Hill.
Howard-Hill, Trevor Howard was born on October 17, 1933 in Wellington, New Zealand. Came to the United States 1972. Son of Roland Henry and Dulcie Helena (Howard) Hill.
Bachelor, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, 1955. Master of Arts, Victoria University, 1957. Doctor of Philosophy, Victoria University, 1960.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Oxford, England, 1971.
He was considered a leading figure in the field of bibliography and book history and an important voice in debates over editorial theory. Howard-Hill was well known in his fields for two major reference works. The Index to British Literary Bibliography, a project that Howard-Hill conceived in the early 1960s, was published in eleven volumes over three decades, from 1969 to 2009.
An early proponent of the field of literary computing, he also produced the 37-volume Oxford Shakespeare Concordances, published from 1969 to 1973.
Within Shakespeare scholarship, Howard-Hill is known for his work on Ralph Crane, a theater scribe who wrote out several of the early surviving manuscripts of Shakespeare"s plays. After earning his Doctor of Philosophy at New Zealand"s Victoria University of Wellington and working as head of cataloging at the Alexander Turnbull Library, he moved to Great Britain and became a research fellow at Oxford from 1965 to 1970.
In 1972, he joined the faculty of the University of South Carolina, where he would work until his retirement in 1999. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1989 in the field of Bibliography.
After his retirement, he continued to serve as the editor of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, a post he had taken up in 1994.
Member Modern Language Association, Modern Humanities Research Association, Malone Society, Society for Textual Scholarship, Renaissance Society American, Shakespeare Association American, New Zealand Library. Association, Bibliographical Society London, Bibliographical Society Oxford, Bibliographical Society American (county since 1994), Southeastern Renaissance Conference (president 1995-1996).
Children: Miranda Caroline, Victoria, Penelope Anne Din, Christopher John, Dorothy Disterheft.