Stanley Weintraub
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Stanley Weintraub and his wife Rodelle Weintraub among their books
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April 17, 1929 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | West Chester State Teachers College |
Stanley Weintraub (born April 17, 1929) is an American historian and biographer. He is an expert on George Bernard Shaw.
Weintraub was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 17, 1929. He was the eldest child of Benjamin and Ray Segal Weintraub. He attended South Philadelphia High School, and then he attended West Chester State Teachers College (now West Chester University of Pennsylvania) where he received his B.S. in education in 1949. He continued his education at Temple University where he received his master's degree in English "in absentia," as he was called to duty in the Korean War.
He received a commission as Army Second Lieutenant, and served with the Eighth Army in Korea receiving a Bronze Star.
After the War, he enrolled at Pennsylvania State University in September 1953; his doctoral dissertation "Bernard Shaw, Novelist" was accepted on May 6, 1956.
He married Rodelle Horwitz in 1954; they have three children, and now live in Newark, Delaware.
Except for visiting appointments, he remained at Penn State for all of his career, finally attaining the rank of Evan Pugh Professor of Arts and Humanities, with emeritus status on retirement in 2000. From 1970 to 1990 he was also Director of Penn State's Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies.
He is a prolific award-winning author:
In 2011, he was awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters by West Chester University of Pennsylvania. On 11 November 1982, the university inaugurated the "Rodelle and Stanley Weintraub Center for the Study of the Arts and Humanities," containing a collection of their books, papers and memorabilia.
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