Larry Benson
1929
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2015
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: Arizona State University, University of California, Berkeley
occupation: philologist, medievalist, scholar of English, university teacher
award received: Guggenheim Fellowship, Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America
Larry Dean Benson (1929–2015) was a professor of medieval literature at Harvard University. After an undergraduate degree at Arizona State University and a Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, he taught at Harvard for 45 years, retiring in 1998. A scholar of Old and Middle English literature, he is best known as the general editor of the Riverside Chaucer, the authoritative modern edition of the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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