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Nina Baym

Born

in Princeton, New Jersey, The United States

June 14, 1936

Died

June 22, 2018

Genre

Literary Criticism, Books About Books, Essays

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Nina Baym (born 1936) was an American literary critic and literary historian. She is best known as the General Editor of the renowned The Norton Anthology of American Literature, from 1991 - 2018. She was professor of English at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for over 40 years, from 1963 to 2004.

Baym was a scholar who asked why so few women were represented in the American literary canon, and subsequently spent her career working to correct that imbalance.

While teaching as English professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1975, Baym was writing a book about Nathaniel Hawthorne when she began to wonder why 19th-Century American literature was so male-dominated.
It was Hawthorne himself who helped pique her ...more

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	The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Package 1: Volumes A-B 4.17 avg rating — 811 ratings — published 1979 — 6 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 Norton Anthology of American Literature by Nina Baym (Editor), Arnold Krupat, Robert S. Levine 4.06 avg rating — 756 ratings — published 1979 — 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
	The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter Version 4.01 avg rating — 713 ratings — 28 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 Norton Anthology of American Literature, Package 2: Volumes C, D, and E by Nina Baym (Editor), Jerome Klinkowitz (Editor), Arnold Krupat (Editor) 4.11 avg rating — 684 ratings — published 1979 — 17 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 Norton Anthology of American Literature: Beginnings to 1865 4.15 avg rating — 642 ratings — 12 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 Norton Anthology of American Literature: Literature to 1820 (Volume A) 3.84 avg rating — 450 ratings — published 1979 — 9 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 Norton Anthology of American Literature: American Literature 1865-1914 (Volume C) 4.09 avg rating — 326 ratings — published 2007 — 11 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 Norton Anthology of American Literature: American Literature since 1945 (Volume E) 4.12 avg rating — 312 ratings — published 1979 — 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
	The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Volume D: 1914-1945 by Nina Baym (Editor), Jerome Klinkowitz (Editor), Arnold Krupat (Editor) 4.03 avg rating — 279 ratings — published 2007 — 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
	Womans Fiction a Guide to Novels 4.11 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1978 — 7 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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The Norton Antology of American Literature (7 books)
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Jeanne Campbell Reesman (Editor),

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