James Thorpe | |
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| Born | (1915-08-17)August 17, 1915 |
| Died | January 4, 2009 |
| Alma mater | The Citadel (BA, 1936) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (MA, 1937) Harvard University (PhD, 1941) |
| Employer | Princeton University |
James Thorpe (born August 17, 1915, inAiken, South Carolina, died January 4, 2009, inBloomfield, Connecticut)[1] was the director of theHuntington Library, and a professor of English atPrinceton University. He was the author of a biography of the library namesake,Henry Edwards Huntington.[2]
Thorpe served in theUnited States Army Air Forces from 1941 to 1946, participating inWorld War II. He earned the rank of colonel and aBronze Star Medal.
He was awardedGuggenheim Fellowships in 1949 and 1965. In 1976, he was elected to theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences.[3] He was later elected to theAmerican Philosophical Society in 1982.[4]
He received a BA fromThe Citadel, an MA fromThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a PhD fromHarvard University.[5][6]
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