Perry Miller was born in Chicago on February 25, 1905.
He was educated at the University of Chicago where he
received his Ph.D. degree in 1931. Since then Mr. Miller
has been teaching at Harvard University and in 1946 be-
came a Professor of American Literature there.

He is the author of Orthodoxy in Massachusetts (1933);
The New England Mind (1939); Jonathan Edwards
( 1949); Roger William ( 1953); The Raven and the
Whale ( 1956); and Errand into the Wilderness ( 1956).

Other volumes edited by Perry Miller available in An-
chor Books editions are: The American Transcendentalists
(A119), The Legal Mind in America: From Independ-
ence to the Civil War (A313), and Margaret Fuller:
American Romantic--A Selection From Her Writings and
Correspondence (A356).

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