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Director's Biography

Photograph of James L.W. West III

James L. W. West III, the director of the center, is a book historian, biographer, and scholarly editor. He is the author of American Authors and the Literary Marketplace since 1900 (1988) and of William Styron, A Life (1998). West has held fellowships from the J. S. Guggenheim Foundation, the National Humanities Center, and NEH; he has been a Fulbright scholar in Belgium and England. He is the General Editor of the Cambridge Fitzgerald Edition and is a past president of SHARP, the international book history organization.


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