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Professor of English
James L. W. West III is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. He is a biographer, literary historian, and scholarly editor. His most recent two books are William Styron: A Life (1998) and The Perfect Hour: The Romance of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ginevra King (2005). West has won fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Humanities Center, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has held Fulbright appointments at Cambridge University in England and at the Université de Liège in Belgium, and he has been a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome.
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