Biography;

University Professor.  Born 1921, Montgomery.  Parents– Raymond G. and Eelje (Scriven) Ridgely.  Married– Janetta Somerset, 1956.  Children–one.  Education;  University of Florida, B. A., 1942, M.A., 1946;  Johns Hopkins University, Ph. D., 1956.  Military service; U.S. Army Air Force, 1942-45.  Instructor, Johns Hopkins, 1946-58; Columbia University, 1958-   .  Frequent contributor to professional journals;  book reviewer for the Baltimore Sun. Member Modern Language Association, American Association of University Professors.  Awarded status of professor emeritus at Columbia on his retirement.

Source;

Contemporary Authors online.

Publications;

John Pendleton Kennedy.  Twayne, 1966.

Nineteenth-Century Southern Literature.  University Press of Kentucky, 1980.

William Gilmore Simms.  Twayne, 1962.

William Gilmore Simms;  The Novelist as Southerner.  Dissertation, Johns Hopkins, 1956.

Editor;

Writings in the Southern Literary Messenger: Nonfictional Prose.  Gordian Press, 1997.

William Gilmore Simms.  The Yemassee: A Romance of Carolina.  Twayne, 1964.

Updated 09/01/2011