14 Facts About Noel Perrin

Edwin Noel Perrin was an American essayist and a professor at Dartmouth College.

Noel Perrin's mother Blanche was a career writer and the author of several novels, and she was his inspiration to become a writer.

Noel Perrin was educated at the Woodberry Forest School in Orange, Virginia, and later at Williams College where he majored in English Literature and graduated in 1949.

Noel Perrin received a master's degree from Duke University in 1950, then served in the Army.

Noel Perrin taught English literature at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina from 1956 to 1959.

Noel Perrin joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1959 as an instructor in English, reaching the rank of full professor by 1970.

Noel Perrin specialized in teaching modern poetry, particularly that of Robert Frost.

Noel Perrin was a Fulbright professor at Warsaw University in Poland in 1970, and was twice a Guggenheim Fellow.

Noel Perrin joined Dartmouth's Environmental Studies Program in 1984 as an adjunct professor, teaching courses on a range of subjects.

Noel Perrin wrote essays for many publications and was a regular contributor to the Washington Post for more than 20 years, covering a wide variety of subjects.

In 1963, Noel Perrin bought a farm in Thetford Center, Vermont which served him as home and grist for six books, including First Person Rural: Essays of a Sometime Farmer.

Noel Perrin often wrote essays about rural life in a fashion similar to the poems of Will Carleton.

Noel Perrin was married four times: to Nancy Hunnicut, from 1960 until their divorce in 1971; to Annemarie Price, from 1975 until their divorce in 1980; to Lindbergh, from 1988 until her death in 1993; and Sara Coburn, until his death.

Noel Perrin recounted his adventures driving his converted Ford Escort from Solar Electric Engineering in California to his Vermont home in Solo: Life with an Electric Car.