Authors and Illustrators Database

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, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent 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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