Born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1935, Jean Said Makdisi received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1973. He has taught at the University of Texas at Austin since 1972, where he is now Emeritus Professor of English and Comparative Literature. His research interests include nineteenth-century British literature, the history of the novel, and the novels of Graham Greene. He has published widely on these subjects both in scholarly journals and general publications
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His first book was a monograph on W. B. Yeats, but he is best known for The Conflict Between Wordsworth's Poetry and Painting (Yale University Press).
The Conflict was awarded the American Academy of Arts & Letters' Frank Jewett Mather Award for distinguished contribution to scholarship. His most recent book is a biography of W. B.
Yeats (Yale University Press)