Paul Fussell

Paul Fussell (22 de março de 1924, Pasadena, California) é um escritor, historiador e professor norte-americano.

Paul Fussell

É professor emérito de literatura inglesa da Universidade da Pensilvânia. Serviu como tenente da infantaria na Segunda Guerra Mundial, tendo sido condecorado com a Estrela de Bronze e a Purple Heart. A sua experiência deu origem a sua autobiografia Doing Battle - The Making of a Skeptic publicada em 1996.

Recebeu o National Book Award em 1976, pela publicação de The Great War and Modern Memory

Livros publicados

• Poetic Meter and Poetic Form (1965)
• The Rhetorical World of Augustan Humanism: Ethics and Imagery from Swift to Burke (1965)
• Theory of Prosody in Eighteenth-Century England (1966)
• Eighteenth-Century English Literature (1969) editor with Geoffrey Tillotson and Marshall Waingrow
• Samuel Johnson and The Life of Writing (1971)
• English Augustan Poetry (1972)
• The Great War and Modern Memory (1975)
• The Ordeal of Alfred M. Hale: The Memoirs of a Soldier Servant (1975) editor
• Abroad: British Literary Travelling Between the Wars (1980)
• The Boy Scout Handbook and Other Observations (1982)
• Sassoon's Long Journey (1983) editor, from The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston
• Class, A Guide Through the American Status System (1983)
• Caste Marks: Style and Status in the USA (1984)
• The Norton Book of Travel (1987) editor
• Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays (1988)
• Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War (1989)
• BAD: or, The Dumbing of America (1991)
• The Bloody Game: An Anthology of Modern War (1991)
• The Norton Book of Modern War (1991) editor
• The Anti-Egotist. Kingsley Amis: Man of Letters (1994)
• Doing Battle - The Making of a Skeptic (1996) autobiography
• Uniforms : Why We Are What We Wear (2002) ISBN 978-0-618-38188-3
• The Boys’ Crusade : The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-1945 (2003)

Ligações externas

• «Biografia» (em inglês) 
• «Guardian arquivo» (em inglês) 
• «The Fate of Chivalry and the Assault Upon Mother from Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays.» (em inglês)