11 Facts About Phyllis Rose

Phyllis Rose was born on October 26,1942 and is an American literary critic, essayist, biographer, and educator.

Phyllis Rose was born Phyllis Davidoff, the third child of Eli and Minnie P Davidoff, and spent her childhood on the South Shore of Long Island, attending Lawrence High School.

Phyllis Rose returned to Harvard to complete her graduate studies, specializing in nineteenth-century English literature and receiving a Ph.

Phyllis Rose began her teaching career in 1969 as an assistant professor of English at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, and rose progressively to associate professor and full professor with tenure in 1976.

Phyllis Rose remained on the faculty of Wesleyan until her early retirement in 2005, spending one year as a visiting professor of English at the University of California at Berkeley.

Phyllis Rose's travel writing was regularly published by The Sophisticated Traveler section of The New York Times.

Since publishing The Year of Reading Proust: A Memoir in Real Time, an account of her engagement with Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Phyllis Rose has taken a long sabbatical from book-writing and devoted herself to photography, specializing in portraits.

Phyllis Rose has had two shows of her art work at the Lucky Street Gallery in Key West, Florida.

In 2014, Phyllis Rose published The Shelf: From LEQ to LES, an account of reading all of the novels on a particular shelf in the stacks of the New York Society Library.

Phyllis Rose has a son, Ted Phyllis Rose, from her first marriage, which ended in 1975.

Since 1985, Phyllis Rose has worked with him on the series.