Lee Clark Mitchell (born 1947) is an American author and professor American studies and literature. He is the Holmes Professor of Belles-Lettres at
Princeton University
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and the former chair of the English Department and director of the program in American studies.
Early life and education
Mitchell was born in 1947. He completed his Ph.D. at
University of Washington
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Personal life
Mitchell was married to musicologist
Carolyn Abbate
Carolyn Abbate (born November 20, 1956) is an American musicologist, described by the ''Harvard Gazette'' as "one of the world’s most accomplished and admired music historians".
She is currently Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professo ...
with whom he has two sons.
In April 2019, he announced his engagement to Cameron Platt after 7 months of dating. They met in the Fall of 2013 when Mitchell was a professor and later a mentor of Platt. They began a personal relationship in 2018 after Platt completed a master's degree at
University of Oxford
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on a
Rhodes Scholarship
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Selected works
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Living people
1947 births
20th-century American male writers
21st-century American male writers
Princeton University faculty
University of Washington alumni