Peter Martin (professor)
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Peter Martin | |
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| Born | 1940 (age 85–86) Buenos Aires, Argentina[1] |
| Education | Principia College (1962), Syracuse University (1968) |
| Occupations | Historian, biographer, English literature scholar |
| Known for | English literature scholar |
Peter Martin (born 1940) is an English literature scholar, biographer, and an 18th-century garden historian. He was educated and has taught in the United States. He lives in England and Spain.
Martin has been a professor of English Literature at Miami University;[2] the College of William & Mary;[3] New England College in Arundel, West Sussex, England;[3] and Principia College (1993–2002).[4][5] For several years, he was Garden Historian for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.[3][6][5]. He was also a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge, England.
He has written several books on historical and biographical topics, including Samuel Johnson: A Biography, A Life of James Boswell, and Edmond Malone: Shakespearean Scholar - a Literary Biography.[7] His has also published about gardens and gardening in Williamsburg and Colonial Virginia, including British and American Gardens in the Eighteenth Century,[6] The Gardening World of Alexander Pope and Pursuing Innocent Pleasures.[8] He also authored the highly acclaimed The Dictionary Wars about American lexicography[7] and A Dog Called Perth about a 21-year relationship with his beagle.[5]
Martin was born and lived in Argentina until the age of ten. He is a 1962 graduate of the Principia College in Elsah, Illinois.[5] He earned his PhD from Syracuse University. He spends his time between West Sussex, England and El Campello, Spain.[5]
