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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