Harry Hayden Clark (1901–1971) was a professor of English, specializing in American literature. He was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1931–1932. Clark graduated in 1923 with A.B. from Connecticut's

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and in 1924 from

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. At Yale University he was an instructor in English for the academic year 1924–1925. In the English department of Vermont's Middlebury College, he was from 1925 to 1926 an instructor and from 1926 to 1928 an assistant professor. From 1928 until his death in 1971 he was a faculty member of the English department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. There he was the advisor for 104 doctoral dissertations. He contributed articles and reviews to ''

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'', '' Encyclopaedia Britannica'', ''The Bookman'', the ''

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''. Clark taught at summer schools at the University of North Carolina, the

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of Middlebury College, the

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, Northwestern University, Stanford University, the University of Southern California, and the University of Wyoming. For the academic year 1953–1954 he was a visiting professor at

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and Stockholm University. Beginning in 1934, Clark was the general editor for the 23-volume ''American Writers Series'' published by the American Book Company. He was a member of the editorial board of ''American Literature'' from 1943 to 1955. In 1948 he chaired the American Literature Group of the Modern Language Association. He was the president of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters in 1965–1966.

Selected publications

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Clark, Harry Hayden 1901 births 1971 deaths People from New Milford, Connecticut Writers from Connecticut American academics of English literature American book editors American literary critics 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American essayists American male non-fiction writers Trinity College (Connecticut) alumni Harvard University alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty