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Richard Marius

Born

in Dixie Lee Junction, Tennessee, The United States

July 29, 1933

Died

November 05, 1999

Genre

History, Language, Fiction

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Richard Curry Marius was an American academic and writer.

He was a scholar of the Reformation, novelist of the American South, speechwriter, and teacher of writing and English literature at Harvard University. He was widely published, leaving behind major biographies of Thomas More and Martin Luther, four novels set in his native Tennessee, several books on writing, and a host of scholarly articles for academic journals and mainstream book reviews.

Marius was known as a raconteur and political activist.

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	A Short Guide to Writing About History by Richard Marius, Melvin E. Page 3.46 avg rating — 226 ratings — published 1989 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thomas More: A Biography 3.97 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 1984 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Writer's Companion 3.86 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 1991 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	After the War 4.35 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1992 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Affair of Honor 4.21 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2001 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Coming of Rain 4.10 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1971 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bound for the Promised Land 4.16 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1976 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Columbia Book of Civil War Poetry: From Whitman to Walcott by Richard Marius (Editor), Keith Frome (Editor) 3.59 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reading Faulkner: Introductions to the First Thirteen Novels by Richard Marius, Nancy Grisham Anderson (Editor) 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Luther 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1974 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“We bring to everything we read the expectations we have built up by a lifetime of reading.”
― Richard Marius

tags: expectations, history, lifetime, people, reading, writing

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“Here is a lesson to brand in fire across any young historian's mind: If you try to do too much, you will not do anything.”
― Richard Marius, A Short Guide to Writing About History

tags: history, lessons, life-lessons, planning, school, work, writing

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“is theologian."4"Both a men seemed agreed that to follow the letter of scripture did not lead to makes what is that letter; the from spirit the discern to best God. They disagreed on what the Spirit taught when it led. Erasmus judged the spirit that interpreted scripture according to the morality produced by this enlightened reading; Luther judged the reading of scripture on whether it assured triumph over death through Christ.”
― Richard Marius, Martin Luther: The Christian between God and Death

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