What is Paul Fussell?
{{Infobox writer |image = pfussell1945.jpg |imagesize = 215px |name = Paul Fussell, Ph.D. ||caption = Lt. Paul Fussell in [[Paris]], [[France]], May 1945 |pseudonym = |birth_date = {{Birth date|1924|3|22|df=y|}} |death_date = {{Death date and age|2012|5|23|1924|3|22|df=y|}} |death_place = [[Medford, Oregon]], U.S. |birth_place = [[Pasadena, California|Pasadena]], [[California]], U.S. |nationality = American |occupation = [[Educator]]; [[Historian]]; [[Social critic]]; [[Author]] |alma_mater = [[Pomona College]] (B.A.),<br/>[[Harvard University]] (MA), (Ph.D.) |language = English |genre = Non-fiction |years_active = 1951 &ndash; 2003 |movement = |spouse = [[Betty Fussell]]<br/>(1949-1981; divorced),<br/>Harriette Behringer<br/>(?-2012; his death) |children = Rosalind Fussell,<br/>Samuel Wilson Fussell |awards = [[Purple Heart]]; [[Bronze Star]]; [[National Book Award]]; [[National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism]], and [[Ralph Waldo Emerson Award]] }} '''Paul Fussell''' (March 22, 1924 – May 23, 2012) was an [[Americans|American]] cultural and literary historian, author, writer, and university professor. ==Early life== Fussell was born in [[Pasadena, California]] on March 22, 1924. He was the second of three children. His father, Paul Fussell (1895–1973), son of a widowed schoolteacher, became a corporate lawyer in [[Los Angeles]] with the firm of O’Melveny & Myers. His mother, Wilhma Wilson Sill (1893–1971), was the daughter of a carriage trimmer in [[Illinois]]. His brother, Edwin Sill Fussell, was an author, poet, and professor of American Studies at the [[University of California, San Diego]]. His sister Florence Fussell Lind lives in [[Berkeley, California]]. ===Education and World War II=== Fussell studied at [[Pomona College]] and at [[Harvard University]]. After he graduated, he served in [[World War II]] from 1943 until a year after the war ended in 1946. He was awarded a [[Bronze Star Medal]] and a [[Purple Heart]]. After the war, he taught at