The son of Max and Ida Fish, Stanley Fish was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and grew up in Philadelphia, where he stayed to take his B.A. in 1959 at the University of Pennsylvania. He did his graduate work at Yale, where his 1962 Ph.D. thesis on John Skelton, written under his chief mentor, E. Talbot Donaldson, was published in 1965 in the Yale Studies in English series. He took his first teaching job at Berkeley, where his contemporaries Stephen Booth and Paul Alpers together with his own first Milton seminars were the immediate stimuli for the book on Paradise Lost that established his reputation, Surprised by Sin (1967). Since then Fish has taught at the Johns Hopkins University and most recently, with his wife Jane Parry Tompkins, at Duke University, where he is chair of the English department and holds a joint appointment in the law school.
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