John O. McCormick
John Owen McCormick was an American literary scholar and Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Rutgers University where he taught for 28 years. On his retirement McCormick was appointed honorary Professor Emeritus by the University of York.
He was a 1988 finalist of Pulitzer Prize for Biography for his book George Santayana: A Biography.
Books
- George Santayana: A Biography
- Catastrophe & Imagination
- The Middle Distance: A Comparative History of American and European Literature, 1919-32
- Fiction and Knowledge
- Seagoing