Raymond Joseph Smith (1930?2008) was for more than thirty years the editor of Ontario Review, a literary magazine, and the Ontario Review Press, a literary book publisher, and for more than 45 years the husband of writer Joyce Carol Oates.Smith was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on March 12, 1930. He went to the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee where he earned a bachelor's degree in English. He then transferred and received his PhD in English from the University of Wisconsin?Madison in 1960, and met his future wife. He taught English literature at the University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario and New York University until 1980, when he left teaching for publishing. He is also the author of Charles Churchill, a critical study on the 18th-century British satirist, and editor of numerous anthologies of works which appeared in Ontario Review.He died February 18, 2008, in Princeton, New Jersey, from "complications of pneumonia", according to the funeral home which handled his burial.The website Celestial Timepiece remembers him as "husband, scholar, editor, publisher, friend."
Fecha de nacimiento
1930-01-01
Año de nacimiento
1930
Fecha de defunción
2008-01-01
Año de defunción
2008
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