11 Facts About Wallace Fowlie

Wallace Fowlie was an American writer and professor of literature.

Wallace Fowlie was the James B Duke Professor of French Literature at Duke University where he taught from 1964 to the end of his career.

Wallace Fowlie is best known for his translations of Arthur Rimbaud, which were appreciated by a younger generation that included Jim Morrison and Patti Smith.

In 1990, Wallace Fowlie consulted with director Oliver Stone on the film The Doors.

Wallace Fowlie discovered French as a high school student in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Wallace Fowlie stayed with the family of Ernest Psichari in Paris, and later wrote his thesis on Psichari, a writer and religious thinker who had died in the first World War.

Wallace Fowlie helped him up and led him back to his seat.

Wallace Fowlie immediately recognized that Eliot had had a mystical experience.

For several decades, Wallace Fowlie was the pre-eminent critic of French literature in America, something which earned him a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship in 1947.

Wallace Fowlie published book after book on the great French writers he revered, including Mallarme and Rimbaud.

Wallace Fowlie was the first translator of Rimbaud in English: his Rimbaud, Complete Works, Selected Letters appeared in 1966.