Edward P. J. Corbett

Edward P.J. Corbett
Alma mater	Loyola University, Chicago, PhD; University of Chicago, MA; Marquette University, BA
Occupation	English professor
Parent(s)	John Corbett Adrian Corbett

Edward P.J. Corbett was an American rhetorician, educator, and scholarly author. Corbett wrote several books, including Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student, The Writing Teacher's Sourcebook, The Elements of Reasoning, Style and Statement, and The Little English Handbook: Choices and Conventions.

Corbett taught and did research in the English departments of Creighton University and Ohio State University.

As a result of his work, the Edward P. J. Corbett Award is named after him. In 1982 Thomas Willard singled out Corbett as an outstanding "contemporary rhetorician."^[1]

Corbett died on June 24, 1998 at his home in Columbus, Ohio at the age of 78.^[2]

References

1. Locke and Language, New York Times Review of Books, October 7, 1982
2. Edward P.J. Corbett in memoriam. Rhetoric Review, 1532-7981, Volume 17, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 126 – 131.