Larry Dean Benson (1929–2015) was a professor of medieval literature at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

. After an undergraduate degree at Arizona State University and a Ph.D. at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

, he taught at Harvard for 45 years, retiring in 1998. A scholar of Old and Middle English literature, he is best known as the general editor of the ''Riverside Chaucer'', the authoritative modern edition of the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer.

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The Geoffrey Chaucer Website
at Harvard, made by Larry Benson 1929 births 2015 deaths Harvard University faculty Arizona State University alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America {{US-English-academic-bio-stub