scholars and writers. Their sense of loss and struggle to understand his suicide can be found in two novels with central figures inspired by Matthiessen, May Sarton's Faithful are the Wounds (1955) and Mark Merlis's American Studies (1994). John William Ward was his student. His stature and legacy as a member of the Harvard community has been memorialized in several ways by the university. He was the first Senior Tutor at Eliot House, one of Harvard College's undergraduate residential houses. Approaching seventy years after his death, Matthiessen's suite at Eliot House remains preserved as the F. O. Matthiessen Room, housing personal manuscripts and 1700 volumes of his library available for scholarly research by permission. Eliot House also hosts an annual Matthiessen Dinner with a guest speaker. In 2009, Harvard established an endowed chair in LGBT studies called the F. O. Matthiessen Visiting Professorship of Gender and Sexuality. Believing the post to be "the first professorship of its kind in the country", Harvard President Drew Faust called it "an important milestone". It is funded by a $1.5 million gift from the members and supporters of the Harvard Gender and Sexuality Caucus. Holders of the chair have included: 2013: Henry D. Abelove 2014: Gayle Rubin 2016: Robert Reid-Pharr 2018: Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley 2020: Mel Y. Chen Several generations after Matthiessen's death, this visiting professorship reaffirms the university's appreciation for his continuing legacy as a storied scholar and teacher. Bibliography Sarah Orne Jewett, , Peter Smith, (1929) Translation: An Elizabethan Art, , (January 1931) The Achievement of T. S. Eliot: An Essay on the Nature of Poetry, Oxford University Press (1935) American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman, , Oxford University Press (1941) (also available in many other editions) Herman Melville: Selected Poems, edited, New Directions (1944) Henry James: The Major Phase, , Oxford University Press (June 1944) Russell Cheney, 1881–1945: A Record of His Work, Oxford University Press (1947) The Notebooks of Henry James, edited by F. O. Matthiessen and Kenneth B. Murdock, (first edition 1947) , University of Chicago Press (1981) From the Heart of Europe, Oxford University Press (1948) The Education of a Socialist, Monthly Review, Vol 2 No 6, October 1950 (posthumous) Of Crime and Punishment, Monthly Review, Vol 2 No 6, October 1950 (posthumous) The Oxford Book of American Verse, , Oxford University Press (December 1950) Responsibilities of the Critic, , Oxford University