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Henry Nash Smith was born on 29 September, 1906 in Dallas, Texas, US, is an American literary critic. Discover Henry Nash Smith's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?

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Occupation Educator, university professor, editor
Age 79 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 29 September, 1906
Birthday 29 September
Birthplace Dallas, Texas, US
Date of death 6 June, 1986
Died Place Near Elko, Nevada, US
Nationality United States

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1906

Henry Nash Smith (September 29, 1906 – June 6, 1986) was a scholar of American culture and literature.

He was co-founder of the academic discipline "American studies".

He was also a noted Mark Twain scholar, and the curator of the Mark Twain Papers.

The Handbook of Texas reported that an uncle encouraged Smith to read at an early age, and that the boy developed an interest in the works of Rudyard Kipling, Robert L. Stevenson and Mark Twain.

Smith was born in Dallas, Texas to a father, an accountant who was a native of Kentucky, and a mother who was a native of Alabama.

1922

In 1922, he enrolled in Southern Methodist University (SMU), where he studied under John Hathaway McGinnis.

1926

In 1926, Smith received his Bachelor's degree at SMU, then enrolled at Harvard University, where he earned the Master of Fine Arts degree.

1927

He returned to SMU in 1927, where he began teaching in the English Department.

1937

He was also appointed as editor of the Southwest Review, a position he held until 1937.

1941

He left SMU again in 1941 to begin teaching as a Professor of English and history at the University of Texas at Austin, Texas (UT-A), where he became a friend with J. Frank Dobie.

Smith was reportedly happy with his work, his colleagues and his students.

1945

However, turmoil embroiled UT in the years following the end of World War II in 1945.

He wrote a paper entitled, "The Controversy at the University of Texas, 1939–1945," which he presented to the student committee on academic freedom on August 13, 1945.

1947

Smith accepted a position as professor of English at the University of Minnesota (UMinn) in 1947, where he joined the American Studies program.

Gossett wrote that while still employed by UMinn, Smith took an active role in protests defending academic freedom at the University of Washington.

1949

This became the basis for publishing an essay titled "Legislatures, Communists and State Universities, in 1949, arguing against firing faculty members who had become members of the communist party.

1950

His Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth, published in (1950) gave its name to the Myth and Symbol School, and in academia was the basis of the paradigm of American Studies until the 1980s.

Since it was based on his Ph.D. thesis and was the basis of a History of American Civilization course at Harvard University, its publication has been seen as the birth of that field.

1953

The Smith family left Minneapolis in 1953, when Henry accepted a position at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB).

Smith taught at the University of Minnesota, at the University of Texas, at Southern Methodist University, and, from 1953 to 1960, at the University of California, Berkeley, later becoming professor emeritus.

1956

Smith married Elinor Lucas in 1956.

They had three children: Harriet Elinor Smith, Janet Carol Smith, and Mayne Smith.

1957

He served as chairman of the UCB English Department from 1957 to 1961, and also served a term as national president of the Modern Language Association in 1969.

A decade after he moved to Berkeley, Smith immersed himself in a series of political actions, including the Free Speech movement and the anti-Vietnam war protests.

In his 1957 essay "Can American Studies Develop a Method?"

(American Quarterly), frequently anthologized, Smith advocated influential objectives and methodological views for the Myth and Symbol School.

1974

He retired from UCB in 1974, and was classified as President Emeritus.

1986

Smith died at the age of 79 on June 6, 1986, following an automobile accident on May 30, 1986, near Elko, Nevada.

2019

The book's topic was the collective perception of the 19th-century American West.

Smith used sources such as dime novels and other items of popular culture.

He was associated with Leo Marx and John William Ward.