| Frank Kermode AKA John Frank Kermode Born: 29-Nov-1919
Birthplace: Douglas, Isle of Man
Died: 17-Aug-2010
Location of death: Cambridge, England
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Critic Nationality: England
Executive summary: The Sense of an Ending Military service: Royal Navy (WWII, six years) Father: John Pritchard Kermode
Mother: Doris Kennedy
Wife: Maureen Eccles (m. 1947, div. 1970, one son, one daughter)
Son: Mark
Daughter: Deborah
Wife: Anita Van Vactor (div.)
High School: Douglas High School
University: BA, Liverpool University (1940)
University: MA, Liverpool University (1947)
Professor: English Literature, University College London (1967-74)
Professor: English Literature, Cambridge University (1974-82)
Professor: Columbia University (1982-)
Encounter Co-Editor (1964-66, resigned)
London Review of Books Contributor
Knighthood 1991
Risk Factors: Smoking
Author of books:
Romantic Image (1957)
John Donne (1957)
William Shakespeare: The Final Plays (1963)
The Patience of Shakespeare (1964)
On Shakespeare's Learning (1965)
The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction (1967)
Continuities (1968)
The Metaphysical Poets (1969)
Modern Essays (1970)
Shakespeare, Spenser, Donne: Renaissance Essays (1971)
The Classic: Literary Images of Permanence and Change (1975)
The Genesis of Secrecy: On the Interpretation of Narrative (1979)
The Art of Telling: Essays on Fiction (1983)
Forms of Attention (1985)
History and Value (1988)
An Appetite for Poetry (1989)
The Uses of Error (1991)
Not Entitled: A Memoir (1999, memoir)
Shakespeare's Language (2000)
Pleasing Myself: From Beowolf to Philip Roth (2002)
Pieces of My Mind: Writings 1958-2002 (2003)
Introduction to Philosophy: Classical and Contemporary (2004)
Pleasure and Change: The Aesthetics of Canon (2004, with Robert Alter)
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