George B. (Burton) Perkins Jr.

Born: 08/16/1930   Lowell
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
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Writings

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
Image of American Tradition in Literature (with Barbara Perkins) 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

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Western Michigan University Kalamazoo , MI

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
Professor Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti , MI 1967 -2001
Lecturer University of Edinburgh EdinburghScotland 1966 -1967
Assistant Professor Fairleigh Dickinson University Teaneck 1963 -1966
Assistant Professor Baldwin-Wallace College Berea 1960 -1963
Lecturer Wahington University St. Louis 1957 -1960

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