Pearson, Norman Holmes, 1909-1975

found: Biog. index, Sept. 73-Aug. 76(Pearson, Norman Holmes; 1909-1975; obit., NY Times, p. 40, 11-7-75)

found: The Portable Romantic poets, 1978:title page (edited by Norman Holmes Pearson) first preliminary page (The late Norman Holmes Pearson was chairman of American studies at Yale. His books inlcude American Literature, Some American Studies, and American Literary Fathers)

found: Wikipedia, January 13, 2017(Norman Holmes Pearson; Norman Holmes Pearson (April 13, 1909--November 5, 1975) was an American academic at Yale University, and a prominent counterintelligence agent during World War II; as a specialist on American literature and department chairman at Yale University he was active in establishing American Studies as an academic discipline; he was born in Gardner, Massachusett and graduated from Yale College in 1932 with a A.B. in English; after a scholarship at Oxford University he was awarded a second A.B. and later an M.A. from Oxford; in 1937, while still a Yale graduate student, he and William Rose Bénet published the two-volume Oxford Anthology of American Literature and later co-edited five volumes on Poets of the English Language with poet W.H. Auden; he became a Yale faculty member, Instructor of English, and eventually Professor of English and of American Studies; he took his Ph. D. in 1941 and was a specialist on Nathaniel Hawthorne; Pearson was recruited by Donald Downes to work for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), in London during World War II; he turned down a position at the State Department to return to academe; he co-founded and headed Yale's new American Studies program; his remains are buried in New Haven's historic Grove Street Cemetery)