Jeffers, Thomas L. 1946-

PERSONAL:

Born June 10, 1946, in Lansing, MI; son of Clyde E. (in auto sales) and Viberta (a teacher) Jeffers; married Pauline Livermore (a teacher), June 14, 1969; children: Matthew, Adam. Education: St. Olaf College, B.A., 1968; Yale University, Ph.D., 1974.

ADDRESSES:

Home—9093 N. Lake Dr., Milwaukee, WI 53217. Office—Department of English, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881. Agent—Glen Hartley, 116 W. 14th St., 11th Fl., New York, NY 10011-7305. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, assistant professor of English, 1974-81; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Mellon fellow, 1981-82; Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, assistant professor, 1982- 88, associate professor of English, 1989—.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Grants from Rockefeller Fund for Theological Education, 1968, and Bradley Foundation, 2003.

WRITINGS:

Samuel Butler Revalued, Pennsylvania State University Press (University Park, PA), 1981.

(Editor) The Norman Podhoretz Reader: A Selection of His Writings from the 1950s through the 1990s, Free Press (New York, NY), 2004.

Apprenticeships: The Bildungsroman from Goethe to Santayana, Palgrave Macmillan (New York, NY), 2005.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, January 1, 2004, Gilbert Taylor, review of The Norman Podhoretz Reader: A Selection of His Writings from the 1950s through the 1990s, p. 812.

Publishers Weekly, January 19, 2004, review of The Norman Podhoretz Reader, p. 68.

Wilson Quarterly, winter, 2004, Andrew J. Bacevich, review of The Norman Podhoretz Reader, p. 127.