A Study of Edgar Allan Poe's Satiric Patterns (1951), title page and table of contents

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William Whipple, Jr. was born on December 31, 1916, in Chicago, IL. Within a few years, his family moved to Kearney, Nebraska, where he grew up. He obtained a B. S. degree from Nebraska State Teachers College in 1939. He served in the U. S. Army 1942-1946. After leaving military service, he obtained his M. A. degree (1947) and Ph.D from Northwestern University (1951). He taught at Lamar State College of Technology in Beaumont, TX for several years (where, in 1956, he delivered a lecture on “Edgar Allan Poe's Great Failure”). He left Lamar in 1960 and joined the faculty of Midwestern University, where he was chairman of the Department of English and Journalism. He resigned in 1971 and joined the faculty at Southwest Minnesota State University, where he was a professor of American Literature. He died on March 18, 1977, in Marshall, OK. He married Mary Elizabeth Moser (1917-1993), on August 24, 1947. (She became a local interest writer for the Daily Oklahoma newspaper.)

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