Richard Armour AKA Richard Willard Armour Born: 15-Jul-1906 Birthplace: San Pedro, CA Died: 28-Feb-1989 Cause of death: unspecified Remains: Buried, Pomona Cemetery & Mausoleum, Pomona, CA
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Author Nationality: United States Executive summary: It All Started with Columbus Military service: US Army Reserve (1927-37, 2nd Lt.); US Army (1942-46) Father: Harry Willard Armour Mother: Sue Wheelock Wife: Kathleen Fauntleroy Stevens (m. 25-Dec-1932, one son, one daughter) Son: Geoffrey Stevens Daughter: Karin Elizabeth
University: AB, Pomona College (1927) University: AM, Harvard University (1928) University: PhD English Philology, Harvard University (1933) Professor: English, Wells College (1934-45) Professor: English, Scripps College (1945-63) Professor: English, Claremont Graduate School (1945-63) Administrator: Dean of Faculty, Scripps College (1961-63)
Legion of Merit
Author of books:
It All Started with Columbus (1955) It All Started with Europa (1955) It All Started with Eve (1956) It All Started with Marx (1956) Twisted Tales from Shakespeare (1957) Drug Store Days: My Youth Among the Pills & Potions (1959, memoir) A Safari into Satire (1961) Armour's Almanac (1962) The Classics Reclassified (1963) The Medical Muse (1963) It All Started with Hippocrates: A Mercifully Brief History of Medicine (1966) Going Around in Academic Circles: A Low View of Higher Education (1966) It All Started with Stones and Clubs (1967) My Life with Women: Confessions of a Domesticated Male (1968, memoir) A Diabolical Dictionary of Education (1969) Punctured Poems (1969) English Lit Relit (1970) AmericanLit Relit (1970) A Short History of Sex (1970) All in Sport (1972) Going Like Sixty (1974) The Academic Bestiary (1974) It All Started with Nudes (1977) Punctured Poems: Famous First and Infamous Second Lines (1982) Our Presidents (1983)
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