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Line 31: ==Life and career== Frederick Newton Arvin was born in [[Valparaiso, Indiana]], and never used his given first name. He studied English ~~Literature~~literature at [[Harvard]], graduating ''[[summa cum laude]]'' in 1921. His writing career began when [[Van Wyck Brooks]], the Harvard teacher he most admired, invited him to write for ''[[The Freeman#Earlier publications called The Freeman\|The Freeman]]'' while he was still an undergraduate. After a short period teaching at the high school level, Arvin joined the English faculty at [[Smith College]] and, though he never earned a doctorate, won a tenured position. One of his students was [[Sylvia Plath]], the poet and novelist. He taught at Smith College for 38 years and was Mary Augusta Jordan Professor of English during the year before his retirement in 1961. He rarely left Northampton for long nor travelled far. He visited Europe only once in the summer of 1929 or 1930. He spent a year's leave of absence in the mid-1920s as the editor of ''Living Age'', a weekly compendium of articles from British and American periodicals.<ref>Daniel Aaron and Sylvan Schendler, eds., ''American Pantheon: Essays'' (NY: Delacorte Press 1966), xxii, 251</ref>

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