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Edwin Sill Fussell
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Edwin Sill Fussell (b. 1922-d. La Jolla, Calif. 27 August 2002) was a professor of English literature at the University of California at San Diego. He was the elder brother of Paul Fussell.
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Fussell grew up in southern California. In 1943 he attained a baccalureate from Pomona College. Thereafter he joined the Navy, serving aboard a destroyer in the Pacific during World War II. He received a doctorate from Harvard in 1949.
Fussell first taught at the University of California at Berkeley. He refused to sign a loyalty oath, losing his job as a result. Fussell went to Pomona College, his alma mater, where he taught American Literature. After teaching at the Claremont Graduate School, Fussell joined the faculty of UC-San Diego. He retired in 1991.
After retiring in 1991, Fussell lived in Paris and Rome. He still wrote, especially about Henry James, Chateaubriand, and Balzac.
- Frontier: American Literature and the American West (1965)
- Lucifer in Harness (1973)