"Perry Miller died fifty years ago today at age fifty-eight. After his death, letters of appreciation from friends and former students flooded the desk where Elizabeth Miller was working to complete her husband’s The Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War. In their letters, students expressed gratitude, friends offered Elizabeth their support, and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. confessed that Miller’s death, coming on the heels of , had left him in a deep depression. “Perry, as you well know,” wrote Schlesinger, “was one of the first influences in my life.” “He was a superb teacher,” Schlesinger recalled. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, a frequent correspondent of Miller’s and a careful reader of all Miller’s books, published an obituary for his friend in the '."
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Perry Miller
(February 25, 1905 – December 9, 1963) was an American historian, biographer, literary critic, and Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature at Harvard University, where he taught an outstanding course on the . In 1966 he was posthumously awarded the for his book The Life of the Mind in America, from the Revolution to the Civil War, which was completed by his wife.
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