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Stanley Edgar Hyman was born on 11 June, 1919 in Brooklyn, New York City, U.S., is an American literary critic (1919–1970). Discover Stanley Edgar Hyman'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 51 years old?

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Occupation Writer · critic · academic
Age 51 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 11 June, 1919
Birthday 11 June
Birthplace Brooklyn, New York City, U.S.
Date of death 29 July, 1970
Died Place North Bennington, Vermont, U.S.
Nationality United States

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His wife is Shirley Jackson (m. 1940-1965) Phoebe Pettingell (m. 1966)

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1919

Stanley Edgar Hyman (June 11, 1919 – July 29, 1970) was an American literary critic who wrote primarily about critical methods: the distinct strategies critics use in approaching literary texts.

He was the husband of writer Shirley Jackson.

Hyman was born in the Brooklyn borough of New York, the son of Moe Hyman, and raised Orthodox Jewish.

1940

He graduated from Syracuse University in 1940, where he met Shirley Jackson.

After reading one of Jackson's stories, Hyman declared that he was going to marry the author.

They had four children together.

He was a staff writer for The New Yorker for much of his life, and although he did not possess a graduate degree, taught at Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont.

Although more likely to be remembered today as the husband of Jackson (he edited a posthumous collection of her work), Hyman was influential in the development of literary theory during the 1940s and 1950s.

Equally skeptical of every major critical methodology of his time, he worked out an early instance of a critical theory, exploring ways that critics can be foiled by their own methods.

"Each critic," Hyman wrote in The Armed Vision, "tends to have a master metaphor or series of metaphors in terms of which he sees the critical function ... this metaphor then shapes, informs, and sometimes limits his work."

Hyman saw it as his own critical task to point out these overriding themes by which, tacitly, other critics organized their work and their thinking.

Hyman was also a noted jazz critic, who wrote hundreds of essays on the subject in addition to his career as a writer and teacher.

He had an important influence on Ralph Ellison's career, although they had many disagreements.

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1961

From 1961 to 1965, Hyman was the literary critic of The New Leader.

He did not believe in monogamy and had numerous affairs during their marriage, often with his students.

According to Shirley Jackson's biographers, her marriage was plagued by Hyman's infidelities, notably with his former students, and she reluctantly agreed to his proposition of maintaining an open relationship.

Hyman was a consistent supporter of his wife's work and resented the lack of recognition she received during her lifetime.

He wrote, "I think that the future will find her powerful visions of suffering and inhumanity increasingly significant and meaningful, and that Shirley Jackson's work is among that small body of literature produced in our time that seems apt to survive."

Hyman also controlled their finances (meting out portions of Jackson's earnings to her as he saw fit), despite the fact that after the success of "The Lottery" and later work she earned far more than he did.

1965

A year after Jackson's death in 1965, Hyman married Phoebe Pettingell, who had been a classmate of his daughter, Joanne, and his student at Bennington College.

1970

Three months after Hyman's death from a suspected heart attack on July 29, 1970, she gave birth to his last child, a son named Malcolm (1970–2009), who became a research fellow in the Department of Classics at Harvard University and later at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.