Ruotolo, Lucio P(eter) 1927-2003
RUOTOLO, Lucio P(eter) 1927-2003
OBITUARY NOTICE—
See index for CA sketch: Born March 14, 1927, in New York, NY; died of complications from heart surgery July 4, 2003, in Stanford, CA. Educator and author. Ruotolo was a former Stanford University professor who was an acknowledged authority on Virginia Woolf. A U.S. Army Air Corps veteran, he was a graduate of Colgate University in 1951, and completed his master's degree in 1954 and doctorate in 1960 at Columbia University. Joining the faculty at Stanford in 1957 as an instructor, he remained there throughout his career, becoming a full professor of English in 1973 and retiring in 1994. The founder, president, and later trustee of the Virginia Woolf Society, Ruotolo made the books of the early twentieth-century novelist his primary interest, editing the Virginia Woolf Miscellany and Woolf's Freshwater (1976). He was also the author of Six Existential Heroes: The Politics of Faith (1972), which won the Wilson Prize in 1972, and The Interrupted Moment: A View of Virginia Woolf's Novels (1986).
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San Francisco Chronicle, July 10, 2003, p. A21.