Merritt Yerkes Hughes


Merritt Yerkes Hughes Hughes was an expert in the literature of France, England and Italy. He was a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1925, the first year they were given.

Life

Hughes was born May 24, 1893 in Philadelphia; he received a bachelor's degree from Boston University in 1915, a master's degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1918 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1921.
Starting in 1922 he was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
In 1929 Hughes had published a volume entitled Virgil and Spenser. Amongst other works, he edited a compilation of the complete works of John Milton.
Hughes died in Madison, Wisconsin on May 12, 1971.