Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his 1975 biography of Edith Wharton, R. W. B. Lewis established himself first in the field of literary criticism. In fact, his influence can be largely traced to a single seminal work. Since its original publication in...
Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis (November 4 1917- June 13 2002) was an American literary scholar and critic. He gained a wider reputation when he won a 1976 Pulitzer Prize for biography, the first National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction, and...
R.W.B. Lewis, a literary critic whose biography of Edith Wharton won a Pulitzer Prize and revived interest in the writer from the Jazz Age, died Thursday at his home in Bethany, Conn. He was 84. Mr. Lewis's "Edith Wharton: A Biography," published in...
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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
R.W.B. Lewis 06/17/2002: 170 words, approx. 1 pages
R.W.B. Lewis, 84 Critic, biographer Monday, June 17, 2002 Bethany, Conn. -- R.W.B. Lewis, a literary critic and Pulitzer- winning biographer, died Thursday. He was 84. Lewis won a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for "Edith Wharton: A Biography" (1975). The book,...
