Inaugural Lecture on being a biographer

Susan Goodman, H. Fletcher Brown Chair of Humanities

5:41 p.m., Feb. 25, 2005--Susan Goodman will deliver her Inaugural Lecture as H. Fletcher Brown Chair of Humanities at 4 p.m., Tuesday, March 1, in 101 Brown Laboratory. Her talk, “Writing Lives is the Devil,” is open to the public.

Internationally recognized for her expertise in late 19th- and early 20th-Century American literature, Goodman is especially known for her work on Edith Wharton and is the author of Edith Wharton’s Inner Circle and Edith Wharton’s Women: Friends and Rivals and coeditor of Edith Wharton: A Forward Glance. She also wrote Ellen Glasgow: a Biography; Civil Wars: American Novelists and Manners, 1880-1940; and edited Femmes de Conscience. Her biography of William Dean Howells, written with Carl Dawson, professor of English, is scheduled for publication.

Among her honors, Goodman received the Guggenheim Fellowship for Biography for 2002-03; the William Dean Howells Memorial Fellowship in American Literature, given by the Houghton Library at Harvard University; and the Dorothy M. Healy Visiting Professorship at the University of New England in 2000.

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