Mark Royden Winchell

Mark Royden Winchell (July 24, 1948 – May 8, 2008) was a biographer, essayist, historian and literary critic. At the time of his death he was Professor of Literature and European Civilization at Clemson University in South Carolina, where he had taught since 1985.[1]

Winchell was born in Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio and graduated BA from West Virginia University before studying for his Ph.D. at Vanderbilt University. The journalist and author Joe Scotchie[2] described him as "A traditionalist in literature and an Old Right conservative in politics."[3]

Winchell died of cancer, aged 59, in 2008, at An-Med Medical Center, Anderson, South Carolina.[4]

He and his wife, Donna Haisty Winchell, had two sons.[5]

Bibliography

  • Joan Didion, Twayne Publishers, Boston (1980; rev. ed. 1989)
  • Horace McCoy, Boise State University, Boise (1982)
  • William F. Buckley, Jr., Twayne Publishers, Boston (1984)
  • Leslie Fiedler, Twayne Publishers, Boston (1985)
  • John Gregory Dunne, Boise State University, Boise (1986)
  • Talmadge, a Political Legacy, a Politician's Life: A Memoir (by Herman E. Talmadge with Mark Royden Winchell), Peachtree Publishers, Atlanta (1987)
  • Neoconservative Criticism: Norman Podhoretz, Kenneth S. Lynn, and Joseph Epstein, Twayne Publishers, Boston (1991)
  • The Vanderbilt Tradition: Essays in Honor of Thomas Daniel Young (edited), Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge (1991)
  • William Humphrey, Boise State University, Boise (1992)
  • Cleanth Brooks and the Rise of Modern Criticism, University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville (1996)
  • Where No Flag Flies: Donald Davidson and the Southern Resistance, University of Missouri Press, Columbia (2000)
  • Too Good to Be True: The Life and Work of Leslie Fiedler, University of Missouri Press, Columbia (2002)
  • Reinventing the South: Versions of a Literary Region, University of Missouri Press, Columbia (2006)
  • Ideas in Conflict: Writing about the Great Issues of Civilization (by Donna Haisty Winchell and Mark Royden Winchell), Thomson/Wadsworth, Boston (2007)
  • God, Man, and Hollywood: Politically Incorrect Cinema from "The Birth of a Nation" to "The Passion of the Christ", ISI, Wilmington (2008)
  • The Cause of Us All: Cultural Politics and the American South, ISI, Wilmington (2011)
  • Confessions of a Copperhead: Culture and Politics in the Modern South, Shotwell Publishing, Columbia, SC (2022)

References

  1. ↑ "Dream of the South", knowsouthernhistory.net. Accessed October 26, 2022.
  2. ↑ "Writing on the Southern Front". Routledge.com. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
  3. ↑ Joe Scotchie. "Mark Royden Winchell, Last of the Vanderbilt Greats", clemson.edu. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
  4. ↑ Obituary, hosting-15912.tributes.com. Accessed October 26, 2022.
  5. ↑ Clyde Wilson. Mark Royden Winchell, RIP, Chroniclesmagazine.org. July 1, 2008. Accessed October 26, 2022.
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