Hyatt Howe Waggoner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hyatt Howe Waggoner

American academic

Date of Birth: 19-Nov-1913

Place of Birth: Pleasant Valley (town), New York, New York, United States

Date of Death: 13-Oct-1988

Profession: literary critic, literary scholar

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Hyatt Howe Waggoner (born Pleasant Valley, New York, November 19, 1913; died October 13, 1988, in Hanover, New Hampshire) was an English professor.
He is today best known for his work on Nathaniel Hawthorne, especially Hawthorne's Selected Tales and Sketches (1950), Hawthorne: A Critical Study (1956) and The Presence of Hawthorne (1979), and in 1978 played a pivotal role in the authentication of the novelist's "lost notebook".
In the year of Waggoner's death, he was honoured with the House of Seven Gables Hawthorne Award.
He did not, however, confine his output to one author: "I've moved around the field", he declared, "at the risk of being superficial." Among the other literary figures who incurred his attention were Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman and William Faulkner.