12 Facts About Daniel Aaron

Daniel Aaron was an American writer and academic who helped found the Library of America.

In 1937, Daniel Aaron became the first to graduate with a degree in "American Civilization" from Harvard University.

Daniel Aaron published his first scholarly paper in 1935, "Melville and the Missionaries".

Daniel Aaron wrote studies on the American Renaissance, the Civil War, and American progressive writers.

Daniel Aaron's last work was an autobiography, The Americanist.

Daniel Aaron edited the diaries of American poet Arthur Crew Inman : some 17 million words from 1919 to 1963.

Daniel Aaron wrote a number of articles for the New York Review of Books.

Daniel Aaron taught at Smith College for three decades and at Harvard.

Daniel Aaron was the Victor S Thomas Professor of English and American Literature Emeritus at Harvard.

Daniel Aaron's son, Jonathan Aaron, is an accomplished poet who holds a doctorate from Yale University and teaches writing at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts.

Daniel Aaron was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1973 and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977.

Daniel Aaron was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree by Harvard University in 2007.