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Weintraub (BS, West Chester University; MA, Temple
University; PhD, Pennsylvania State University)
is the author or editor of more than fifty books
in biography, culture history and military history.
A complete listing is in Who’s Who in
America. Notable among them are Private
Shaw and Public Shaw (New York, 1963); Beardsley
(New York: 1967 & several later editions);
Bernard Shaw: An Autobiography 2 vols.,
New York, 1969-1970); Journey to Heartbreak
(New York, 1971); Whistler (New York,
1974); Four Rossettis (New York, 1977);
The London Yankees (New York, 1979);
Bernard Shaw: The Diaries (University
Park, PA, 1986); Victoria (New York,
1987); Disraeli (New York, 1993); Uncrowned
King: The Life of Prince Albert (New York,
1997); Edward the Caresser (New York,
2001); Charlotte and Lionel: A Rothschild
Love Story (New York, 2003); and Iron
Tears (2005). For military histories such
as Long Day’s Journey into War
(1991) and Silent Night (2001) see more
detailed listings.
As a journals editor and board of editors member
he edited Shaw Review, which became Shaw.
The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies, from
1956 to 1989. He was also editor of Comparative
Literature Studies from 1986 to 1993. He
remains on the editorial boards of Shaw, Literature
and Medicine and English Literature in Transition,
1880-1920. As critic he has been a book reviewer
for the Wall Street Journal, New
York Times Book Review and Washington
Post.
He has been a National Book Award finalist and
a Guggenheim Fellow. As an Army lieutenant during
the Korean War (1951-53) he was awarded a Bronze
Star. At the Pennsylvania State University, where
he began as a teaching assistant and retired as
Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Arts and Humanities
in 2000, he was also Director of its Institute
for the Arts and Humanistic Studies from 1970
to 1990. He has been a visiting professor at UCLA,
the University of Hawaii, the University of Malaya
and the National University of Singapore.
At West Chester University, where he is Honorary
Professor, an archive of his books and manuscripts
was established in 1982 as the Rodelle & Stanley
Weintraub Research Institute.
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