Terrence Doody (born 1943) is an American literary scholar and Professor Emeritus at

Rice University William Marsh Rice University (Rice University) is a Private university, private research university in Houston, Houston, Texas. It is on a 300-acre campus near the Houston Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. Rice is ranke ...

. He is known for his works on the

novel A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itsel ...

. He is a recipient of

NEH The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency of the U.S. government, established by thNational Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965(), dedicated to supporting research, education, preserv ...

and Mellon grants.

Books

* ''Confession and Community in the Novel'' * ''Among Other Things: A Description of the Novel''

References

Living people Rice University faculty 1943 births American literary critics Cornell University alumni {{US-academic-bio-stub