in a ravine about 30 feet from his house. A railed walkway connected the house to the studio, which was built by Nancy Lewis' brother-in-law Isham McConnell, who studied under the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Lewis continued to write his books on a typewriter into his later years. Bookshelves lined the walls of Lewis' office, with each section containing works from Lewis' various areas of research: the James' family, Edith Wharton, Dante and Italy, American literature, etc. In 2006 the Yale College Writing Center was endowed with a directorship in Lewis' name. "This position in Dick Lewis’ name will serve as a permanent tribute to a writer who made every subject he engaged in memorable and to a memorable teacher who made every student mindful of great writing,” said Yale President Richard C. Levin in a university press release. Personal life Lewis married Nancy Lindau in 1950. They had three children: Nathaniel (born 1960), who is also a literary historian at Saint Michael's College; Sophie (born 1965), a health expert with the government of Massachusetts; and Emma (born 1967), an environmental lawyer. Lewis also had a son by the Danish writer Elsa Gress, the historian David Gress. Lewis died in Bethany, Connecticut. Works written The American Adam: Innocence, Tragedy, and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century (1955) The Picaresque Saint. Representative Figures in Contemporary Fiction (1959) Herman Melville (1962) Trials of the Word: Essays in American Literature and the Humanistic Tradition (1965) The Poetry of Hart Crane: A Critical Study (1967) American Literature: The Makers and the Making: Book C / 1861 to 1914 (1974, with Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren) Edith Wharton: A Biography (1975) The Jameses: A Family Narrative (1991) Literary Reflections : A Shoring of Images 1960-1993 (1993) The City of Florence: Historical Vistas and Personal Sightings (1995) American Characters: Selections from the National Portrait Gallery, Accompanied by Literary Portraits (1999, with Nancy Lewis) Dante (2001) Works edited Presence of Walt Whitman (1962) Malraux: A Collection of Critical Essays (1964) The Letters of Edith Wharton (1989, with Nancy Lewis) The Selected Short Stories of Edith Wharton (1991) References Further reading Ward, John William 1955. Andrew Jackson, Symbol for an Age. New York: Oxford University Press. Ward, John William. 1969 Red, White, and Blue: Men, Books, and Ideas in American Culture . New York: Oxford University Press Marx, Leo. 1964. The Machine in the Garden: Technology and