Books, November 29, 2001 Joel Dorius, My Four Lives: An Academic Life Shattered By Scandal (Country Press, 2004) Louis Kronenberger, "A Memoir," in Daniel Aaron and Sylvan Schendler, eds., American Pantheon: Essays (NY: Delacorte Press 1966) Barry Werth, "Newton Arvin's Yaddo," in Micki McGee, ed., Yaddo : Making American Culture (NY:Columbia University Press, 2008), Barry Werth, The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin: A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal (Doubleday, 2001), New York Times: Wilson Follett, "Walt Whitman as the Poet of Socialism," Nov. 27, 1938, accessed December 29, 2009, book review of Whitman New York Times: Lawrence Thompson, "A Tarnished Reputation Reappraised," May 5, 1963, accessed December 29, 2009, book review of Longfellow: His Life and Work New York Times: Alfred Kazin, "The Burning Human Values in Melville," May 7, 1950, accessed December 29, 2009, book review of Herman Melville New York Times: Caleb Crain, "'The Scarlet Professor': Search and Destroy," August 5, 2001, accessed January 5, 2010, book review of The Scarlet Professor New York Times: "'The Scarlet Professor'," Aug. 26, 2001, accessed December 29, 2009, letter to the editor from Arvins's nephew External links Independent Lens: "The Great Pink Scare", accessed Dec. 29, 2009 Newton Arvin Papers at the Mortimer Rare Book Collection, Smith College Special Collections Newton Arvin Papers at the Smith College Archives, Smith College Special Collections American literary critics 1900 births 1963 deaths American gay writers Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters National Book Award winners Harvard College alumni Smith College faculty LGBT people from Indiana LGBT people from Massachusetts People prosecuted under anti-homosexuality laws People from Valparaiso, Indiana Deaths from cancer in Massachusetts Writers from Indiana Writers from Northampton, Massachusetts 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American historians 20th-century American essayists American male non-fiction writers Historians from Massachusetts Gay academics 20th-century LGBT people