Hirsch, E(ric) D(onald), Jr.
HIRSCH, E(ric) D(onald), Jr.
HIRSCH, E(ric) D(onald), Jr. American, b. 1928. Genres: Education, Literary criticism and history. Career: University Professor of Education and Humanities, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1994- (Professor, 1966-73, Kenan Professor of English, 1973-94, Chairman of Dept., 1968-71, 1981-83). Served in the U.S. Navy, 1950-52; Instructor in English, 1956-60, Assistant Professor, 1960-63, and Associate Professor, 1963-66, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. President, Core Knowledge Foundation, since 1986. Publications: Wordsworth and Schelling: A Typological Study of Romanticism, 1960, 1971; Innocence and Experience; an Introduction to Blake, 1964; Validity in Interpretation, 1966; The Aims of Interpretation, 1976; The Philosophy of Composition, 1977; Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know, 1987; Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, 1988; A First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, 1989, 2nd ed., 1996; The Core Knowledge Series, 7 book series, 1991-96; The Schools We Need and Why We Don't Have Them, 1996; Books to Build On: A Grade by Grade Resource for Parents and Teachers, 1996. Address: 2006 Pine Top Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22903, U.S.A.