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Frank Gado, professor emeritus of American literature, was born and raised in northeastern New Jersey. Throughout his teaching career at Union College in Schenectady, NY, he focused on American fiction, with particular interest in its idiosyncratic features. As a consequence of having been awarded two Fulbrights to the University of Uppsala, he was among the first in an American college to teach courses on the great film auteurs. Among his publications are First Person: Conversations on Writers and Writing (interviews with Glenway Wescott, John Dos Passos, Robert Penn Warren, John Updike, John Barth, and Robert Coover); The Passion of Ingmar Bergman; and William Cullen Bryant: An American Voice. His essays have appeared in several books, most prominently, on Bryant in Dictionary of Literary Biography: Antebellum Writers in Upstate New York, and on the rise of American poetry during the first third of the 19th century in the Cambridge History of American Poetry. He has also edited and written introductory essays on works by Sherwood Anderson, Stephen Crane, James Kirke Paulding, and Charles Brockden Brown. Gado now lives on a Vermont hilltop, where he ponders the plight of American higher education and reflects on the literary expression of the American mind. In concert with The Trustees of Reservations and the local board in Cummington, MA, he lends his efforts to promoting interest in the Bryant Homestead which overlooks the lovely roll of hills. ...

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