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Chronology
- 1905 Born New Haven, Connecticut, 25 April
- 1917-21 New Haven General High School, New Haven
- 1921-25 Brown University (Ph.B., 1925)
- 1924 Phi Beta Kappa
- 1924-25 Editor-in-Chief, Brown Daily Herald
- 1925-34 Harvard University (Ph.D., 1934)
- 1926-36 Instructor in English and Tutor in the Modern Languages, Harvard University
- 1928 Charles Dexter Scholar, Harvard University (and 1935)
- 1934 Ph.D., Harvard University
- 1936-38 Instructor in English, Princeton University
- 1938-46 Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia
- 1942-45 Commander, U.S.N.R., Naval Communications, Washington, D.C.
- 1946-48 Associate Professor of English, University of Virginia
- 1948-57 Professor of English, University of Virginia
- 1948-91 Editor, Studies in Bibliography
- 1949-64 Professorial Lecturer in English, University of Chicago
- 1952-53 Fulbright Fellow for Advanced Research in the United Kingdom
- 1954 A.S. W. Rosenbach Fellow in Bibliography
- 1954-72 Advisory Board, Shakespeare Quarterly
- 1955-60 Committee on Research Activities, Modern Language Association of America
- 1955-82 New Variorum Shakespeare Committee, MLA
- 1956-59 Regional Chairman, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
- 1957-58 Samuel Sandars Reader in Bibliography, Cambridge University
- 1957-68 Alumni Professor of English, University of Virginia
- 1958-59 Guggenheim Fellow
- 1959 James P. R. Lyell Reader in Bibliography, Oxford University
- 1960 President, Southeastern Renaissance Conference
- 1961-68 Chairman, Department of English, University of Virginia
- 1961-75 Editorial Board, Virginia Quarterly Review
- 1962 Committee on Resolutions, MLA
- 1962-63 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar
- 1962-78 Shakespeare Variorum Committee, Modern Language Association of America
- 1963-66 Executive Council, MLA
- 1964 Bicentennial Medal, Brown University
- 1966-68 English Program Advisory Committee, MLA
- 1967-70 MLA Delegate to American Council of Learned Societies Executive Committee, South Atlantic Modern Language Association (Vice-President, 1968; president, 1969)
- 1968 Corresponding Fellow, The British Academy Election to American Antiquarian Society
- 1968-69 Dean of the Faculty, University of Virginia
- 1968-75 Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English, University of Virginia
- 1969 Gold Medal, The Bibliographical Society, London
- 1970 Doctor of Letters, Clark University Doctor of Letters, Brown University Guggenheim Fellow [taken up in 1972] Research Scholar, Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy
- 1970-74 Advisory Board, University Press of Virginia
- 1971 Thomas Jefferson Award, University of Virginia
- 1972 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford Research Scholar, Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy
- 1973 Doctor of Humane Letters, University of Chicago
- 1974 Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford
- 1975-91 Emeritus Linden Kent Memorial Professor, University of Virginia
- 1975 Fellow Commoner, Churchill College, Cambridge
- 1985 International Conference on Bibliography and Editing in Honor of Fredson Bowers's Eightieth Birthday, University of Virginia, 20-23 April. [See Fredson Bowers at Eighty (New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1985, reprinted from Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 79 [Second Quarter 1985]), 54 p., including articles by G. Thomas Tanselle, David J. Nordloh, and David L. Vander Meulen.]
- 1985-87 President, Society for Textual Scholarship Research Fellow, Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California
- 1986 Election to Honorary Membership, Bibliographical Society of America Julian P. Boyd Award, Association for Documentary Editing
- 1989 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, Huntington Library
- 1991 Died Charlottesville, Virginia, 11 April
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