Born: 08/16/1930   Lowell , MA
Parents: George B. and Gladys B. Perkins
Spouse: Barbara A. Miller Perkins
Children: Laura, Suzanne, Alison
Address(es):
Permanent :
1316 King George Blvd.
Ann Arbor , MI 48108
Contact Information:
Phone : 734 971-1893

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	tones stand, waters flow : a new england story	Biography	Adult	Xlibris, Corp	2007
	American Tradition in Literature - 10th edition; also Print on demand (Primis - continual update)	Non Fiction	Adult	Boston : McGraw-Hill	2002
	HarperCollins reader's encyclopedia of American literature - "Portions of this book appeared in a somewhat modified form in The reader's encyclopedia of American literature, published by T.Y. Crowell in 1962, and in Benét's reader's encyclopedia, third edition, published by Harper & Row in 1987"--T.p. verso.	Non Fiction	Adult	New York, N.Y. : Harper Resource	2002
	American Tradition in Literature (with Barbara Perkins) - 9th edition; Also Print on demand edition (Primis, 2000)	Non Fiction	Adult	Boston : McGraw-Hill	1999
	Season in New South Wales	Non Fiction , Travel	Adult	Edmonton, AB, Canada : Commonwealth Publications	1998
	Harper Handbook to Literature (with Northrop Frye, Sheridan Baker and Barbara Perkins) - 2nd edition	Non Fiction	Adult	New York: Longman	1997
	Woman's Work: An Anthology of American Literature (with Barbara Perkins and Robyn Warhol)	Non Fiction	Adult	New York : McGraw-Hill	1994
	Kaleidoscope: Stories of the American Experience (with Barbara Perkins)	Non Fiction	Adult	New York : Oxford University Press	1993
	Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature (with Barbara Perkins and Phillip Leininger)	Non Fiction	Adult	New York, NY : HarperCollinsPublishers	1991
	Contemporary American Literature (with Barbara Perkins)	Non Fiction	Adult	New York : Random House	1988
	Practical Imagination (with Northrop Frye, Sheridan Baker, and Barbara Perkins) - Revised Compact Edition	Non Fiction	Adult	New York : Harper & Row	1987
	Diagnostic and Achievement Tests (with Barbara Perkins and Frank McHugh)	Non Fiction	Adult	New York : Harper & Row	1984
	Practical Imagination : stories, poems, plays(with Northrop Frye and Sheridan Baker)	Non Fiction	Adult	New York : Harper & Row	1980 -1983
	Contributor to Great Writers of the English Language: Novelists	Non Fiction	Adult	New York: Macmillan	1979
	American Poetic Theory	Non Fiction , Poetry	Adult	New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston	1972
	Contributor to Contemporary Novelists	Non Fiction	Adult	New York: Macmillan	1972
	Realistic American Short Fiction	Fiction , Non Fiction , Short Stories	Adult	Glenview, Ill., Scott, Foresman	1972
	Theory of the American Novel - Edited with an introduction by George Perkins.	Non Fiction	Adult	New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston	1970
	Varieties of Prose	Non Fiction	Adult , Teen	Glenview, Ill. Scott, Foresman	1966
	Writing Clear Prose; a brief rhetoric	Non Fiction	Adult , Teen	Chicago, Scott, Foresman	1964
	Other writings: - Articles in Choice, Descant, The Dickensian, The Explicator, The Journal of American Folklore, The Journal of Narrative Technique, The Journal of the Ohio Folklore Society, The New England Quarterly, Nineteenth-Century Fiction	Non Fiction	Adult
	Contributor to Great Writers Student Library	Non Fiction		Macmillan

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Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author

Name	Date
Society for the Study of narrative Literature established annual Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Award for the Best Book in Narrative Studies to honor "the many past and continuing contributions of Barbara and George Perkins to the development and success of the Society."	1994
Duke University Fellowship, Cornell University Fellowship, Eastern Michigan University Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching, Research and Service; Eastern Michigan University Board of Regents Commendation for Outstanding Contributions and Achievements; Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, Senior Fulbright Scholar, University of Newcastle, Australia

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