Article

THE AUTHOR

MARCH 1965
Article
THE AUTHOR
MARCH 1965

THE AUTHOR: Burton E. Martin '33, professor of English and American literature at Waseda University, Tokyo, stands at the university's "gateless entrance," with the auditorium in the background. He has been teaching in Japan since 1948, first at Tohoku University in Sendai, and since 1959 at Waseda. He manages to include a great deal of writing, lecturing, and broadcasting in his career, and his travels have taken him throughout the Orient and Europe. Three years ago he was visiting professor at the University of Vienna and most of last year was spent in the universities of Europe. Following service as Red Cross program director in England and as an UNRRA official in Italy, Martin was sent to Japan at the end of the war to be a corps chief education officer, which led to his settling down in Japan as a teacher and writer. He is the author of a novel, Unpromised Land (1948), based on his UNRRA experience, and also of a half-dozen books about literature, including Foundations of American Literature, The Romantic Era, Blake toBrowning and Elizabethan Drama.