Perry Miller

Teacher

Birthday February 25, 1905

Birth Sign Pisces

Birthplace Illinois

DEATH DATE Dec 9, 1963 (58)

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About

American historian and professor at Harvard University who founded the field of American Studies and released the famous book The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century in 1939.

Before Fame

He earned a degree from the University of Chicago and started teaching at Harvard University in 1931.

Trivia

He spent a year at the Institute for Advanced Study on a Guggenheim Fellowship in Princeton, New Jersey.

Family Life

His family comes from Chicago, Illinois.

Associated With

Felix Frankfurter wrote a tribute to him that was featured in The New York Herald Tribune.