Childhood and education; Graduate work at Harvard; Employment at UW; Colleagues in English Department; Play Reading Club; University Heights Poetry Club; Depression; WWII; Presidents Glenn Frank, Clarence Dykstra and E. B. Fred; Mark Ingraham; TA Strike and student unrest; Theatre and drama at UW; Research on Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare; Graduate students; Modern Language Association; International Association of University Professors in English; Family life.