Paul Fussell
Paul Fussell Jr. (22 March 1924 – 23 May 2012) was an American
cultural and
literary historian, author and university professor. His writings cover a variety of topics, from scholarly works on eighteenth-century English literature to commentary on
America's class system. Fussell served in the
103rd Infantry Division during
World War II and was
wounded in fighting in France. Returning to the US, Fussell wrote extensively and held several faculty positions, most prominently at
Rutgers University (1955–1983) and at the
University of Pennsylvania (1983–1994). He is best known for his writings about World War I and II, which explore what he felt was the gap between the romantic myth and the reality of war; he made a "career out of refusing to disguise it or elevate it".
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