Wallace Fowlie, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Wallace Fowlie

American writer and professor of literature

Date of Birth: 08-Nov-1908

Place of Birth: Brookline, Massachusetts, United States

Date of Death: 16-Aug-1998

Profession: writer, translator

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Wallace Fowlie (1908–1998) was an American writer and professor of literature.
He was the James B.
Duke Professor of French Literature at Duke University where he taught from 1964 to the end of his career.
Devoted to teaching, particularly undergraduate courses in French, Italian, and modernist literature, Fowlie influenced several generations of American college students over a six-decade career of teaching.
Probably his best-known student is another writer and critic of French literature, Roger Shattuck.
Fowlie was also noted for his correspondence with literary figures such as Henry Miller, René Char, Jean Cocteau, André Gide, Saint-John Perse, Marianne Moore, and Anaïs Nin.
He is best known for his translations of Arthur Rimbaud, which were appreciated by a younger generation that included Jim Morrison (whose work Fowlie also became a scholar of) and Patti Smith.
In 1990, Fowlie consulted with director Oliver Stone on the film The Doors.