Laurence S. Lockridge

Laurence Lockridge is a Professor of English at NYU in Manhattan. The second of four children of novelist Ross Lockridge, author of *Raintree County*, he grew up in Bloomington, Indiana. He received his B.A. (1964) from Indiana University; and his M.A. (1968) and his Ph.D. (1969), both in English and American literature, from Harvard. He taught at Harvard, Rutgers, and Northwestern before moving to New York City in 1978. His areas of teaching and research have included British Romanticism, the …