University of Virginia Library

Bowers Receives Medal
From British Academy

Fredson T. Bowers, Linden Kent
Professor English and dean of
the Faculty of Arts and Sciences,
will receive the gold medal of the
Bibliographical Society for services
to bibliography at the British
Academy in London today.

An internationally known textual
and literary critic of Shakespeare
and the Elizabethan drama,
Dr. Bowers is the fifth American
among only 19 persons to receive
the award during the society's 77
years of existence. In 1967 Dr.
Bowers was guest speaker at the
society's 75th anniversary meeting
in London and in 1968 he was
elected a Fellow of the British
Academy.

The author of more than 100
scholarly articles, including the
articles on bibliography and textual
criticism in the Encyclopedia Britannica,
Dr. Bowers has also written
such books as "Principles of Bibliographical
Description," "Textual
and Literary Criticism" and "Bibliography
and Textual Criticism."

He has been Sanders Reader in
Bibliography at Cambridge University,
Reader in Bibliography at
Oxford University and is presently
editor of the annual "Studies in
Bibliography" published at the
University of Virginia. Dr. Bowers
also has edited the first volume of a
new edition of "The Works of
Stephen Crane," published by the
University Press of Virginia.