Mark Royden Winchell (July 24, 1948 – May 8, 2008) was a biographer, essayist, historian and literary critic. At the time of his death he was Professor of Literature and European Civilization at

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, where he had taught since 1985. He was born in Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio and graduated BA from

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before studying for his Ph.D. at

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. Joe Scotchie described him as "A traditionalist in literature and an Old Right conservative in politics." Winchell died of cancer, aged 59, in 2008, at An-Med Medical Center,

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. He and his wife, Donna Haisty Winchell, had two sons.Clyde Wilson
Mark Royden Winchell, RIP
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Joan Didion Joan Didion (; December 5, 1934 – December 23, 2021) was an American writer. Along with Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson and Gay Talese, she is considered one of the pioneers of New Journalism. Didion's career began in the 1950s after she won an ...

'', Twayne Publishers, Boston (1980; rev. ed. 1989) * ''

Horace McCoy Horace Stanley McCoy (April 14, 1897 – December 15, 1955) was an American writer whose mostly hardboiled stories took place during the Great Depression. His best-known novel is '' They Shoot Horses, Don't They?'' (1935), which was made into ...

'', Boise State University, Boise (1982) * ''

William F. Buckley, Jr. William Frank Buckley Jr. (born William Francis Buckley; November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008) was an American public intellectual, conservative author and political commentator. In 1955, he founded ''National Review'', the magazine that stim ...

'', Twayne Publishers, Boston (1984) * ''

Leslie Fiedler Leslie Aaron Fiedler (March 8, 1917 – January 29, 2003) was an American literary critic, known for his interest in mythography and his championing of genre fiction. His work incorporates the application of psychological theories to American lit ...

'', Twayne Publishers, Boston (1985) * ''

John Gregory Dunne John Gregory Dunne (May 25, 1932 – December 30, 2003) was an American writer. He began his career as a journalist for ''Time (magazine), Time'' Time (magazine), magazine before expanding into writing criticism, essays, novels, and screenplays. ...

'', Boise State University, Boise (1986) * ''Talmadge, a Political Legacy, a Politician's Life: A Memoir'' (by

Herman E. Talmadge Herman Eugene Talmadge (August 9, 1913 – March 21, 2002) was an American politician who served as governor of Georgia in 1947 and from 1948 to 1955 and as a U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1957 to 1981. Talmadge, a Democrat, served during a tim ...

with Mark Royden Winchell), Peachtree Publishers, Atlanta (1987) * ''

Neoconservative Neoconservatism is a political movement that began in the United States during the 1960s among liberal hawks who became disenchanted with the increasingly pacifist foreign policy of the Democratic Party and with the growing New Left and coun ...

Criticism:

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, Kenneth S. Lynn, and

Joseph Epstein Joseph Epstein (October 16, 1911 – April 11, 1944), also known as Colonel Gilles and as Joseph Andrej, was a Poland, Polish-born Jewish Communism, communist activist and a French Resistance leader during World War II. He was executed by the ...

'', Twayne Publishers, Boston (1991) * ''The Vanderbilt Tradition: Essays in Honor of Thomas Daniel Young'' (edited), Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge (1991) * '' William Humphrey'', Boise State University, Boise (1992) * ''

Cleanth Brooks Cleanth Brooks ( ; October 16, 1906 – May 10, 1994) was an American literary critic and professor. He is best known for his contributions to New Criticism in the mid-20th century and for revolutionizing the teaching of poetry in American higher ...

and the Rise of Modern Criticism'', University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville (1996) * ''Where No Flag Flies: Donald Davidson and the Southern Resistance'', University of Missouri Press, Columbia (2000) * ''Too Good to Be True: The Life and Work of Leslie Fiedler'', University of Missouri Press, Columbia (2002) * ''Reinventing the South: Versions of a Literary Region'', University of Missouri Press, Columbia (2006) * ''God, Man, and Hollywood: Politically Incorrect Cinema from "

The Birth of a Nation ''The Birth of a Nation'', originally called ''The Clansman'', is a 1915 American silent epic drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish. The screenplay is adapted from Thomas Dixon Jr.'s 1905 novel and play ''The Cla ...

" to "

The Passion of the Christ ''The Passion of the Christ'' is a 2004 American epic biblical drama film produced, directed and co-written by Mel Gibson and starring Jim Caviezel as Jesus of Nazareth, Maia Morgenstern as Mary, mother of Jesus, and Monica Bellucci as Mary M ...

"'', ISI, Wilmington (2008) * ''Ideas in Conflict: Writing about the Great Issues of Civilization'' (by Donna Haisty Winchell and Mark Royden Winchell),

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, Boston (2006) * ''The Cause of Us All: Cultural Politics and the American South'', ISI, Wilmington (2011)

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"From Memphis to Nashville: The Odyssey of Jerry Lee Lewis" by Mark Royden Winchell
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