Mark Royden Winchell Explained

Mark Royden Winchell (July 24, 1948 – May 8, 2008) was a biographer, essayist, historian and literary critic. At the time of his death he was Professor of Literature and European Civilization at Clemson University in South Carolina, where he had taught since 1985.^[1]

Winchell was born in Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio and graduated BA from West Virginia University before studying for his Ph.D. at Vanderbilt University. The journalist and author Joe Scotchie^[2] described him as "A traditionalist in literature and an Old Right conservative in politics."^[3]

Winchell died of cancer, aged 59, in 2008, at An-Med Medical Center, Anderson, South Carolina.^[4]

He and his wife, Donna Haisty Winchell, had two sons.^[5]

Bibliography

• Joan Didion, Twayne Publishers, Boston (1980; rev. ed. 1989)
• Horace McCoy, Boise State University, Boise (1982)
• William F. Buckley, Jr., Twayne Publishers, Boston (1984)
• Leslie Fiedler, Twayne Publishers, Boston (1985)
• John Gregory Dunne, Boise State University, Boise (1986)
• Talmadge, a Political Legacy, a Politician's Life: A Memoir (by Herman E. Talmadge with Mark Royden Winchell), Peachtree Publishers, Atlanta (1987)
• Neoconservative Criticism: Norman Podhoretz, Kenneth S. Lynn, and Joseph Epstein, Twayne Publishers, Boston (1991)
• The Vanderbilt Tradition: Essays in Honor of Thomas Daniel Young (edited), Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge (1991)
• William Humphrey, Boise State University, Boise (1992)
• Cleanth Brooks and the Rise of Modern Criticism, University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville (1996)
• Where No Flag Flies: Donald Davidson and the Southern Resistance, University of Missouri Press, Columbia (2000)
• Too Good to Be True: The Life and Work of Leslie Fiedler, University of Missouri Press, Columbia (2002)
• Reinventing the South: Versions of a Literary Region, University of Missouri Press, Columbia (2006)
• Ideas in Conflict: Writing about the Great Issues of Civilization (by Donna Haisty Winchell and Mark Royden Winchell), Thomson/Wadsworth, Boston (2007)
• God, Man, and Hollywood: Politically Incorrect Cinema from "The Birth of a Nation" to "The Passion of the Christ", ISI, Wilmington (2008)
• The Cause of Us All: Cultural Politics and the American South, ISI, Wilmington (2011)
• Confessions of a Copperhead: Culture and Politics in the Modern South, Shotwell Publishing, Columbia, SC (2022)

External links

• Winchell . Mark Royden . From Memphis to Nashville: The Odyssey of Jerry Lee Lewis . Southern Cultures . 2000 . 6 . 4 . 124–129 . 10.1353/scu.2000.0016 . 154187464 . . free .

Notes and References

1. http://www.knowsouthernhistory.net/Articles/Culture/dream_of_the_south.html "Dream of the South"
2. Web site: Writing on the Southern Front . Routledge.com . 28 June 2023.
3. Joe Scotchie. "Mark Royden Winchell, Last of the Vanderbilt Greats", clemson.edu. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
4. http://hosting-15912.tributes.com/obituary/show/Mark-Royden-Winchell-83323655 Obituary
5. Clyde Wilson. Mark Royden Winchell, RIP, Chroniclesmagazine.org. July 1, 2008. Accessed October 26, 2022.