1906
Henry Nash Smith, American academic (died 1986)
Henry Nash Smith, American academic (died 1986)
Henry Nash Smith, American academic (died 1986)
Henry Nash Smith
American literary critic
- Born
- 1906
Henry Nash Smith was a scholar of American culture and literature. He is recognized as one of the founders of the academic discipline American studies. He was also a noted Mark Twain scholar, and the curator of the Mark Twain Papers. The Handbook of Texas reported that an uncle encouraged Smith to read at an early age, and that the boy developed an interest in the works of Rudyard Kipling, Robert L. Stevenson and Mark Twain.