Biography:

Literary scholar; university professor, administrator. Born– August 9, 1919, Washington, D.C. Parents– Maurice Drummond and Clara (Hanna) Malone. Married– Alice Bond Wells, August 15, 1942. Children– Three. Education– A.B., 1940; Ph.D., 1948, University of North Carolina. Taught English at Auburn University, 1948-1962; University of Southern California, 1962-1983; (at USC served as chairman of the English Department and Dean of Humanities).  Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Vienna, Austria, 1958-60. President of the Auburn City Board of Education, 1961-1962. Chairman, editorial board, University of Southern California Studies in Comparative Literature, 1968-1984. Member MLA, AAUP, American Comparative Literature Association.  Died June 8, 2003.

Sources:

Marquis Who’s Who online; Directory of American Scholars, 1982.

Joint_Publication(s):

Outline of Comparative Literature. Chapel Hill, N.C.; University of North Carolina Press, 1954.

Editor:

The Frontiers of Literary Criticism. Los Angeles; Hennessey & Ingalls, 1974.