Whitman

Rufus Emory Holloway (1885–1977) was an American literary scholar and educator renowned for his pioneering studies of Walt Whitman, including The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (1921) and his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative (1926), the first such work on a literary figure to receive the award. He taught English at Adelphi College and Queens College, chairing the latter's department until 1954, and also authored Free and Lonesome Heart: The Secret of Walt Whitman (1960).