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Richard Poirier was an American literary critic, author, and professor. He was born on 9 September 1925 in Massachusetts. He was the son of a French-Canadian father and an Irish-American mother. He attended Harvard University, where he earned his B.A. in 1947 and his Ph.D. in 1952. Poirier was a professor of English at Rutgers University from 1956 to 1991. He was the author of several books, including A World Elsewhere: The Place of Style in American Literature (1966), The Performing Self: Compositions and Decompositions in the Languages of Contemporary Life (1971), and Raritan: A Quarterly Review (1987). He was also the editor of several anthologies, including The Raritan Reader (1987) and The Oxford Book of American Literary Anecdotes (1989). Poirier was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism in 1988. He died on 28 April 2009 at the age of 83. At the time of his death, Richard Poirier had an estimated net worth of $2 million.

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1968

In 1968, he signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.

1961

He co-founded the Library of America, and served as chairman of its board. He was the Marius Bewley Professor of American and English Literature at Rutgers University. He was also the editor of Raritan, a literary quarterly, and an editor of Partisan Review. He was series editor of Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards from 1961 to 1966.

1925

Richard Poirier (born Gloucester, Massachusetts, September 9, 1925, died New York City, August 15, 2009) was an American literary critic.