where was this person born?
Gardner, Massachusetts
Norman Holmes Pearson
He was born in Gardner, Massachusetts, to a locally prominent family that owned a chain of department stores
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Norman Holmes Pearson [SEP] Career
He was born in Gardner, Massachusetts, to a locally prominent family that owned a chain of department stores. Pearson attended Gardner schools and Phillips Andover Academy (1927-1928). He graduated Yale College in 1932 with a A.B. in English. After a scholarship at Oxford University he was awarded a second A.B. and later an M.A. from Oxford. In 1937, while still a Yale graduate student, he and William Rose Bénet published the two-volume "Oxford Anthology of American Literature" and later co-edited five volumes on "Poets of the English Language" with poet W.H. Auden. He became a Yale faculty member, Instructor of English, and eventually Professor of English and of American Studies.