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Max Putzel lived in St. Louis and worked as a journalist, foreign correspondent and Missouri farmer before he turned to a career in academia.
A graduate of St. Louis Country Day School and Yale College, he began his apprenticeship in journalism at the Granite City, Ill., Press-Record, then joined the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, where he worked as a copy boy, feature writer and drama editor. In 1937, he went to Europe and reported on the gathering clouds of war as he traveled through Germany, Austria, France, England and Czechoslovakia, returning to the United States after Munich. He spent the war years in Washington, working for Nelson Rockefellerīs Office of Inter-American Affairs that worked to prevent Latin America from falling to the Axis powers. When the war ended, Putzel became a farmer, first in Virginia, then in Missouri, before returning to graduate school in 1952. He earned his doctorate at Yale and joined the English faculty of the University of Connecticut at Storrs. He was professor emeritus of English and former associate dean of the graduate school.
In addition to The Man in the Mirror, which was originally published by Harvard University Press, he is the author of Genius of Place: William Faulknerīs Triumphant Beginnings, which is published by Louisiana State University Press as part of the Southern Literary Studies. He edited and wrote the Introduction and Notes for the Doubleday Anchor Original edition of Astrophil and Stella by Sir Philip Sidney, Anchor Books, Doubleday & Co., Inc., Garden City, N.Y., 1967, and numerous scholarly papers.
After living in Chaplin, Connecticut, for many years, Max Putzel retired to Aix-en-Provence, then moved to Georgeville, Quebec, where he built a house near several of his children. He moved again in his later years to the village of Captain Cook on the Big Island of Hawaii, where he lived with his wife Marion until his death in August 2003.  |
