Poe and the New York Literati (1954), title page and table of contents

Notes:

James Brady Reece (1919-1984) was born in Tennessee. His parents moved to Lenoir, NC when he was still a child and where he attended High School. He obtained his B. A. degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1945, having transferred there from Appalachian State Teachers College in Tennessee in 1943 having previous graduated from Millington College, a two-year school. He obtained his M. A. from Duke University in 1949, and his Ph.D. from Duke in 1954. Beginning in 1952, he taught for many years at the College of William and Mary in Norfolk, VA, which changed its name to Old Dominion when it became a full four-year college in 1962. He became an assistant professor in 1955 and was promoted to full professor in 1961. He retired in 1981, and died in 1984. He was appointed head of the English Department in 1964, a role he continued until 1969. He married Joyce Harrington in 1947. She was a secretary to a dean at the school for many years, and died in 1986. They are both buried in the Taylorsville City Cemetery in Taylorsville, North Carolina.

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