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Park Honan


Born
in Utica, New York, The United States
September 17, 1928

Died
September 27, 2014

Genre
Nonfiction, Biography


Leonard Hobart Park Honan (17 September 1928 – 27 September 2014) was an American academic and author who spent most of his career in the UK. He wrote widely on the lives of authors and poets and published important biographies of such writers as Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold, Jane Austen, William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe.

Honan began his career specializing in Victorian literature but later broadened his scope, becoming an expert in the Elizabethan period. From 1959, he taught at Connecticut College and then Brown University before relocating permanently to England in 1968, where he taught at the University of Birmingham until becoming Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Leeds in 1984. He was elect ...more

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Average rating: 3.73 · 574 ratings · 56 reviews · 14 distinct works • Similar authors
Jane Austen: Her Life
3.79 avg rating — 206 ratings — published 1987 — 23 editions
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Shakespeare: A Life
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Christopher Marlowe: Poet &...
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The Beats : An Anthology of...
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The book, the ring, and the...
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Matthew Arnold: A Life
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Authors' Lives: On Literary...
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Browning's Characters: A St...
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Matthew Arnold, Mary Claude...
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