Mccormick, John O(wen)
MCCORMICK, John O(wen)
MCCORMICK, John O(wen). American, b. 1918. Genres: Literary criticism and history, Biography. Career: Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (Professor from 1959). Sr. Tutor and Teaching Assistant, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1946- 51; Lecturer, Salzburg Seminar in American Studies, Austria, 1951-52; Professor of American Studies, Free University of Berlin, 1952-53, 1954-59. Publications: Thomas Wolfe, Andre Malraux, Herman Hesse, 1951, rev. ed., 1987; Catastrophe and Imagination, 1957; Amerikanische Lyrik, 1957; Der moderne amerikanische Roman, 1960; (ed. with M. MacInnes) Versions of Censorship, 1962; (ed.) Syllabus of Comparative Literature, 1963, 1972; (with M. Sevilla) The Complete Aficionado, 1967, rev. ed., 1998; The Middle Distance: A Comparative History of American and European Imaginative Literature 1919-1932, 1971, rev. ed., 1999; Fiction as Knowledge: The Modern Post-Romantic Novel, 1975, rev. ed., 1999; George Santayana: A Biography, 1987, rev. ed., 2003; Seagoing: Memoirs, 2000. Address: 31 Huntington Rd, York YO31 8RL, England.