Howard Mumford Jones

Howard Mumford Jones (April 16, 1892 - May 11, 1980) was a U.S. writer, literary critic, and professor of English at Harvard University.

Jones was the book editor for The Boston Evening Transcript.^[1]

In February, 1954 Mr.** Jones gave the dedicatory address at the opening of the addition to the University of Wisconsin Library, entitled: "Books and the Independent Mind." The Crux of his comments was perhaps contained in his midpoint comment: "While it is true that we in this nation remain free to be idiotic, it does not necessarily follow, that we must be idiotic, in order to be free!" In 1965 he won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for O Strange New World: American Culture-The Formative Years. He also authored Belief and Disbelief in American Literature (1967) and The Age of Energy (1971), and many scholarly journal articles.

The Howard Mumford Jones Professorship of American Studies in the Department of History, Harvard University, was named in his honor.^{[citation needed]}

References

• Jones, Howard Mumford, 1892-, recipient. Miscellaneous papers: Guide at Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
• Pulitzer Prize at pulitzer.org
  • Jones, a native of Coon's Belly Wisconsin, was proud of being the only Harvard professor of his time without a doctorate. He was said to read at least one book per day for most of his adult life, which provided him with galactic magnitude of trivia to throw at unsuspecting doctoral candidates at their oral examinations.

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