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Wayne C. Booth (1921–2005)

Author of The Craft of Research

Includes the names: Wayne Booth, Wayne Booth, Wayne C. Booth, Wayne C. Booth, Wayne et al. Booth

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The Craft of Research 2,859 copies, 19 reviews
The Rhetoric of Fiction 731 copies, 7 reviews
The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction 188 copies
A Rhetoric of Irony (Phoenix Books) 142 copies
The Rhetoric of Rhetoric 75 copies, 1 review
Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent 72 copies
For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivals 56 copies
Now Don't Try to Reason with Me: Essays and Ironies for a Credulous Age 44 copies
The Harper and Row Reader: Liberal Education Through Reading and Writing 40 copies
The Vocation of a Teacher: Rhetorical Occasions, 1967-1988 39 copies
Critical Understanding: The Powers and Limits of Pluralism 31 copies
The Art of Growing Older: Writers on Living and Aging (Editor) 25 copies
The Knowledge Most Worth Having 20 copies
The Harper & Row rhetoric : writing as thinking, thinking as writing 20 copies

My Many Selves: The Quest for a Plausible Harmony 13 copies

The Essential Wayne Booth 7 copies, 1 review

What Every Novelist Needs to Know about Narrators (Chicago Shorts) 5 copies

The Battle of the Books from The Knowledge Most Worth Having 1 copy

"Types of Narration". In: The Rhetoric of Fiction 1 copy

Confessions of an Aging, Hypocritical Ex-Missionary 1 copy

The art of deliberalizing : a handbook for true professionals 1 copy

Die Rhetorik der Erzählkunst II. 1 copy

The Jordan Lectures, 1998-1999 1 copy

Die Rhetorik der Erzählkunst I. 1 copy

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A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (Editor, some editions) 6,622 copies, 22 reviews
The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction (Contributor) 955 copies, 2 reviews
Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics (Introduction, some editions) 340 copies, 1 review
Theory's Empire: An Anthology of Dissent (Contributor) 85 copies, 1 review
A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism (Blackwell Companions to… (Contributor) 33 copies
Essays on Aristotle's Poetics (Contributor) 27 copies
James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man: A Casebook… (Contributor) 23 copies
A Mirror For Modern Scholars (Contributor) 11 copies
Pluralism in Theory and Practice: Richard McKeon and American Philosophy… (Contributor) 7 copies
How Should We Talk about Religion?: Perspectives, Contexts,… (Contributor) 3 copies
Proving Contraries (Contributor) 3 copies
Journal of Mormon History - Vol. 25, No. 2, Fall 1999 (Contributor) 2 copies
Sunstone - Vol. 21:1, Issue 109, March-April 1998 (Contributor) 1 copy
Sunstone - Vol. 21:1, Issue 113, March-April 1999 (Contributor) 1 copy

Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 33, Number 1 (Spring 2000) (Contributor) 1 copy

Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 13, Number 4 (Winter 1980) (Contributor) 1 copy

Sunstone - Vol. 18:2, Issue 99, August 1995 (Contributor) 1 copy

Sunstone - Issue 139, November 2005 (Contributor) 1 copy

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Booth, Wayne C.

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Booth, Wayne Clayson

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Birthplace

American Fork, Utah, USA

Place of death

Chicago, Illinois, USA

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American Fork, Utah, USA

Richmond, Indiana, USA

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Haverford, Pennsylvania, USA

Education

University of Chicago (PhD ∙ English ∙ 1950)

University of Chicago (AM ∙ 1947)

Brigham Young University (AB ∙ 1944)

Occupations

literary critic

emeritus professor

Relationships

Booth, Phyllis (wife)

Organizations

University of Chicago

Modern Language Association

American Association of University Professors

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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Awards and honors

Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award (2006)

George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor of English, University of Chicago

Christian Gauss Prize (1962)

David H. Russell Prize (1966)

Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1972)

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