Alexander Maclaren Witherspoon papers

Alexander M. Witherspoon (1894-1964): Educator; B.A., Yale, 1918, M.A., 1921, Ph.D., 1923; instructor in English, Yale, 1923-1926, assistant professor, 1926-1935, associate professor, 1935-1963, professor emeritus, 1963-1964.

He was the author of The Influence of RobertGarnier on Elizabethan Drama (Yale Press, 1924) and Common Errors in English (Doubleday, Doran, 1943) and he was the editor of Titus Andronicus in the Yale Shakespeare Series (Yale Press, 1926) and the co-editor of Seventeenth-Century Prose and Poetry (1929, 1946) and The College Survey of English Literature (1942, 1952), both published by Harcourt, Brace. Since 1953 Witherspoon has been on the editorial board of The Complete Prose Works of John Milton (eight volume—Yale Press, 1953—), and he was co-editor of Volume Four of the series, published in 1953. He was also a member of the editorial board of the Masterworks Series (five volumes—Doubleday, Doran, 1946-50). He belonged to the Modern Language Association of America, the Modern Humanities Research Association, the National Council of Teachers of English, the American Association of University Professors (secretary-treasurer of the Yale chapter, 1940-44), the Elizabethan Club (formerly president), the Graduates Club, "The Club" of New Haven, and United Church. He was unmarried.

History of the Class of 1918 Yale College, Forty Years On. Vol. II (1954), pp. 371-372.