George Eliot

Gordon Sherman Haight (1901-1985) was an American literary scholar and Yale University professor renowned for his definitive biography George Eliot: A Biography (1968), which won the Van Wyck Brooks Memorial Award and James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and for editing The George Eliot Letters (1954–1978). He dedicated over 60 years to George Eliot scholarship, including advocating for her memorial in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner.