Career

Hall, a 1936 graduate of Bowdoin College

Bowdoin College

Bowdoin College , founded in 1794, is an elite private liberal arts college located in the coastal Maine town of Brunswick, Maine. As of 2011, U.S. News and World Report ranks Bowdoin 6th among liberal arts colleges in the United States. At times, it was ranked as high as 4th in the country. It is...

 in Brunswick, Maine

Brunswick, Maine

Brunswick is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. The population was 20,278 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Portland-South Portland-Biddeford metropolitan area. Brunswick is home to Bowdoin College, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, , and the...

 who received his P.H.D. in English from Yale University

Yale University

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

 in 1941, taught at several educational institutions including Deerfield Academy

Deerfield Academy

Deerfield Academy is an independent, coeducational boarding school in Deerfield, Massachusetts, United States. It is a four-year college-preparatory school with approximately 600 students and about 100 faculty, all of whom live on or near campus....

 and Yale, before he taught English at Bowdoin from 1946 to 1967. He retired as a Henry Leland Chapman professor in 1986 and was a visiting professor at Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

 in 1956. Additionally, he was an active advocate of the arts in Maine, served to the rank of lieutenant commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve (1943-46), and was director of a censorship intelligence unit of the Office of Strategic Services (1942).

His short story, The Ledge, won first place in the O. Henry Prize Collection in 1960, and has appeared in more than thirty anthologies. His novel, Stowaway, unanimously received the William Faulkner

William Faulkner

William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner worked in a variety of media; he wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays and screenplays during his career...

 Award for best debut novel. He also contributed to several journals including The Hudson Review

The Hudson Review

The Hudson Review is a quarterly journal of literature and the arts. It was founded in 1947 in New York by William Ayers Arrowsmith, Joseph Deericks Bennett, and George Frederick Morgan. The first issue was introduced in the spring of 1948...

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Published works

• Hawthorne: Critic of Society (1943)
• The Ledge (1638)
• Stowaway (1961)
• How Thinking Is Written (1963)
• A Grammar of Literary Criticism (2011)
• Seeing And Describing (1966)

External links

• http://library.bowdoin.edu/arch/mss/lshg.shtml
• http://www.enotes.com/lawrence-sargent-hall-salem/lawrence-sargent-hall