The Scarlet Professor

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During his thirty-seven years at Smith College, Newton Arvin published groundbreaking studies of Hawthorne, Whitman, Melville, and Longfellow that stand today as models of scholarship and psychological acuity. He cultivated friendships with the likes of Edmund Wilson and Lillian Hellman and became mentor to Truman Capote. A social radical and closeted homosexual, the circumspect Arvin nevertheless survived McCarthyism. But in September 1960 his apartment was raided, and his cache of beefcake erotica was confiscated, plunging him into confusion and despair and provoking his panicked betrayal of several friends.

subjects: Arvin, Newton, 1900-1963,  Capote, Truman, 1924-1984,  Smith College,  American literature,  English teachers,  Biographers,  Gay men,  Littérature américaine,  Professeurs d'anglais,  Biographes,  Homosexuels masculins,  Authors, biography,  Friends and associates,  Theory,  History and criticism,  Faculty,  Biography,  LGBTQ biography and memoir,  Stonewall Book Awards,  Lambda Literary Awards,  Lambda Literary Award Winner,  collection:randy_shilts_award=finalist,  collection:israel_fishman_non-fiction_award=winner

People: Newton Arvin (1900-1963),  Truman Capote (1924-1984),  Truman Capote (1924-)

Places: United States