11 Facts About Julian Moynahan

Julian Lane Moynahan was an American academic, librarian, literary critic, poet, and novelist.

Julian Moynahan was active as a book reviewer for leading publications on both sides of the Atlantic and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1983.

Moynahan was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, in 1925; at the time of the 1940 census, Moynahan was living in Walden Street with his mother, Mary, his eighteen-year-old sister, Anne, and sixteen-year-old brother, Joseph.

Julian Moynahan was both an undergraduate and a graduate at Harvard, where he took the degrees of AB, AM and PhD.

In 1954, Julian Moynahan was an instructor in English at Amherst College.

Julian Moynahan went on to become a lecturer at Princeton, Harvard, and University College Dublin, and by 1969 was professor of English literature at Rutgers University.

In 1966, Julian Moynahan was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship.

Julian Moynahan served on the jury of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was a published poet.

In 1975, Joseph Frank invited Julian Moynahan to give three lectures at Princeton on Anglo-Irish writers, and from this a third specialism developed.

Julian Moynahan struck up friendships with Sean O Faolain and Benedict Kiely.

Julian Moynahan finds that the women writers, Edgeworth, Somerville and Ross, and Bowen, were a major force in the development of literary imagination.