Biography:

University professor. Born– February 19, 1916, Camden, Ark. Parents– Louis Victor and Elizabeth (Walther) Benson. Married– Martha Ellen Blanks, May 29, 1941. Children– Two. Education– Southern State College, Magnolia, Arkansas; University of Texas, B.A., 1937, M.A., 1938; University of Illinois, Ph.D., 1948. Taught at Arkansas A & M College and University of Illinois; Auburn University after 1947. A Ford faculty fellow at Harvard University and Masschusetts Institute of Technology; Fulbright lecturer at Erlangen University.  The Carl Benson Lecture Series on Twentieth Century Literature was established in his honor by the English Department at Auburn.  Died April 1979.

Source:

Who’s Who in America, 1978.

Joint_Publication(s):

The Idea of Tragedy. Glenview, Ill.; Scott, Foresman, 1966.

Joint_Compiler:

Essays for Exposition. New York; Harcourt, 1977.