- He was on the English faculty of Smith College for 30 years. He also taught at Harvard. During WWII shortages of manpower, he worked on a farm and as a volunteer police officer. He also pitched for a softball team.
- He was a literary critic and historian who helped preserve the United States' cultural heritage as a co-founder of the Library of America. The non-profit company has published 9.5 million copies of 279 moderately-priced novels, memoirs, narrative histories, forgotten masterpieces, and other classics.
- He received the first doctoral degree in American civilization granted by Harvard.
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