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Howard Mumford Jones

(1892-1980)

1964O Strange New World: American Culture--The Formative Years. Jones, a Harvard professor of English, wins the Pulitzer Prize for this first volume in a series of books on American culture that would include Belief and Disbelief in American Literature (1967) and The Age of Energy (1971).

 
 
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"I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us."

 
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Howard Mumford Jones (April 16, 1892 - May 11, 1980) was a U.S. writer, literary critic, and professor of English at Harvard University. In 1965 he won the General Non-Fiction Pulitzer Prize 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.

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