Harries, Elizabeth Wanning 1938-

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HARRIES, Elizabeth Wanning 1938-

PERSONAL: Born May 22, 1938, in East Orange, NJ; daughter of Henry F. (a schoolteacher) and Elizabeth (a homemaker; maiden name, Marvin) Wanning; married July 5, 1959; wife's name Karsten (divorced, 1990); children: Lisa Harries-Schumann, Peter J., Martin. Education: Vassar College, A.B., 1959; Yale University, M.A.T., 1960, Ph.D., 1973.

ADDRESSES: Home—9 North Main St., Box 932, Williamsburg, MA 01096. Offıce—Seelye 205, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063. E-mail—[email protected].


CAREER: Yale University, New Haven, CT, lecturer, 1973-74; Smith College, Northampton, MA, professor, 1974—.


AWARDS, HONORS: Walker Cowen Prize, University of Virginia, 1992, for The Unfinished Manner.


WRITINGS:


Writing Papers, Sundance Press, 2nd edition, 1986.

The Unfinished Manner, University Press of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA), 1994.

Twice upon a Time: Re-reading the History of theFairy Tale (tentative title), Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), in press.*