F. O. Matthiessen AKA Francis Otto Matthiessen Born: 19-Feb-1902 Birthplace: Pasadena, CA Died: 1-Apr-1950 Location of death: Boston, MA Cause of death: Suicide [1]
Gender: Male Religion: Christian Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Gay [2] Occupation: Critic Nationality: United States Executive summary: American Renaissance Military service: Canadian Air Force (WWI) [1] Leapt from a window, most certainly a suicide. [2] American Culture's Debt to Gay Sons of Harvard (Dinitia Smith, The New York Times, 29th May 2003.) See also The Crimson Letter: Harvard, Homosexuality and the Shaping of American Culture (2003), by Douglass Shand-Tucci.
Father: William Frederick Matthiessen Mother: Lucy Orne Boyfriend: Russell Cheney (painter, cohabited, dated 1923 until d. 1945)
University: BA, Yale University (1919-23, honors) University: B Litt, Oxford University (1925) University: MA, Harvard University (1926) University: PhD, Harvard University (1927)
Rhodes Scholarship Skull and Bones Society Nervous Breakdown 1938/39 (hospitalized)
Author of books:
Sarah Orne Jewett (1929) Translation: An Elizabethan Art (1931) The Achievements of T. S. Eliot (1935) American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman (1941) Henry James (1944) The James Family (1947) Russell Cheney, 1881-1945: A Record of His Work (1947) Theodore Dreiser (1951) The Responsibilities of the Critic (1952)
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