Roger Shattuck

Roger Whitney Shattuck (1923-2005) was an American literary scholar and critic born in Manhattan, New York. He served as a cargo pilot in WWII, worked for UNESCO in Paris, and taught at Harvard, University of Texas at Austin, University of Virginia, and Boston University without a graduate degree, retiring as professor emeritus in 1997. Best known for works on French literature like The Banquet Years and Marcel Proust (National Book Award 1975), along with Forbidden Knowledge.