WILLIAM O’DAY

Background

Baker, William was born on July 6, 1944 in Shipston-on-Stour, Warwicks, England. Son of Stanley and Mabel (Woolf) Baker. came to the United States, 1989.

Education

Bachelor in English Studies with honors, University Sussex, Brighton, England, 1966. Master of Philosophy in English, University London, 1970. Doctor of Philosophy in English, University London, 1974.

Career

Lecturer City Literary Institute, London, 1967-1971, Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel, 1971-1977, University Kent, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom, 1977-1978. Senior lecturer West Midlands College, Walsall, United Kingdom, 1978-1985. Housemaster Clifton College, Bristol, United Kingdom, 1986-1989.

Professor Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, since 1989, presidential research professor, 2003—2007, distinguished research professor, since 2007, trustee professor, since 2009. Visiting professor Pitzer College, Claremont College, California, 1981-1982. Member executive committee Bibliography and Textual Studies, Modern Language Association, New York, 1996-1999.

Council Bibliographical Society America. Member, executive committee Modern Language Association Bibliography.

Achievements

• Certified Master of Library Science/Loughborough University, England.

Works

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  • Twentieth-Century Bibliography and Textual Criticism: An Annotated Bibliography

    ( In addition to historicizing, recording, and defining t...)

  • George Eliot: A Bibliographical History

    (This bibliography is the most comprehensive in-print refe...)

  • A Wilkie Collins Chronology (Author Chronologies Series)

    ( The Autumn 2004 Andrew Lloyd Webber West End musical ad...)

  • Critical Companion to Jane Austen: A Literary Reference to Her Life and Work

    (Jane Austen has been one of the world's most popular writ...)

  • Leonard Merrick: A Forgotten Novelist's Novelist

    ( This study is the first comprehensive, full-length acco...)

  • Tom Stoppard: A Bibliographical History

    (Tom Stoppard is one of the most prolific living British a...)

  • The Complete Shorter Poetry of George Eliot: Vol 2

    (Presents George Eliot's shorter poetry. This volume inclu...)

  • The English Association One Hundred Years on

Membership

Member of Modern Language Association (executive committee bibliography and textual studies 1996-1999, delegate assembly since 2004), Bibliographical Society of America (council since 2003), International Association University Professors of English.

Connections

Married Rivka Frank, October 16, 1969. Children: Sharon, Karen.

Father:

Stanley Baker

Mother:

Mabel (Woolf) Baker

Spouse:

Rivka Frank

child:

Sharon Baker

child:

Karen Baker