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Identifies LC/NAF RWO
Identifies RWO
Birth Date
- 1919-05-19
Death Date
- 1984-08-09
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1960
- Affiliation End: 1973
- Organization: Northwestern University Press
Has Affiliation
Has Affiliation
- Organization: University of Ibadan
Has Affiliation
- Organization: University of Texas. Department of Anthropology
Birth Place
- Wheeling (W. Va.)
Associated Language
- English
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Sources
- found: His Three essays on African art and literature, 1966.
- found: Information from 678 converted Jan. 5, 2015(Director of Northwestern University Press)
- found: Expanding horizons in African studies, 1969:page 119 (Robert Plant Armstrong; contribution: The arts in human culture) page 361 (director of the Northwestern University Press, and associated with the Program of African Studies)
- found: University of Iowa Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives web site, Finding aid: Robert Plant Armstrong Papers, viewed Feb. 6, 2017(born May 19, 1919 in Wheeling, West Virginia; served in the U.S. Navy 1940-1943; BA in English 1944, University of Arizona; MA 1946 from Iowa Writers Workshop; PhD in anthropology 1957, Northwestern University; held several jobs in the book world: Houghton Mifflin Company, Alfred A. Knopf, Harper & Bros.; director of publications at the University of Arizona Press 1959-1960 before becoming director of Northwestern University Press in 1960; fired in 1973 while he was on leave at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria; served in the Anthropology Department at the University of Texas at Dallas until his death Aug. 9, 1984, of a brain tumor; also a collector of African art)
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Change Notes
- 1980-02-14: new
- 2023-08-29: revised
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