Samuel F. "Sam" Pickering Jr. (born September 30, 1941) is a writer and professor emeritus of English at the University of Connecticut in Storrs.[1] His unconventional teaching style was an inspiration for the character of Mr. Keating, played by Robin Williams in the film Dead Poets Society.[2] Pickering specializes in the familiar essay, children's literature, nature writers, and 18th and 19th century English literature.[3] Pickering has published many collections of non-fiction personal essays as well as over 200 articles.
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Society. Pickering specializes in the familiar essay, children's literature, nature writers, and 18th and 19th century English literature. Pickering has published...
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Washington appointed Pickering to the position of Postmaster General in 1791. After briefly serving as Secretary of War, Pickering became the Secretary...
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Paul Pickering (born 9 May 1952) is a British novelist and playwright. Pickering was born in Rotherham, Yorkshire, England, the son of Arthur Samuel Pickering...
Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American inventor and painter. After having established his reputation as a portrait...
Watson Goodwin 1908–1915 John Trowbridge 1915–1917 Henry Pickering Walcott 1917–1919 Charles Pickering Bowditch 1919–1921 Theodore William Richards 1921–1924...
Pickering Village is a former municipality and now a neighbourhood in the town of Ajax, within the Durham Region of Ontario, Canada. The Pickering Village...
19th century British reform movement. Edmond Beales was the son of SamuelPickering Beales, a merchant of Newnham, Cambridgeshire and was born on 3 July...
Henry Pickering Walcott (December 23, 1838, in Hopkinton, Massachusetts – November 11, 1932) was an American physician who served as a director of the...
proportions of full-blown farce." The essayist and professor of English SamuelPickering called A Short Walk and Newby's later book Slowly Down the Ganges "vastly...
864–872. Bobbie Ann Mason. 1975. The Girl Sleuth, Feminist Press. SamuelPickering, Jr. Review Essay, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America...
hopefully lead one to "universal benevolence" as an adult. According to SamuelPickering Jr., a scholar of eighteenth-century children's literature, "in its...
school in Pickering. In 1877 a successor to the original school near West Lake was constructed on Conc. 2, Lot 13, near the Village of Pickering. It would...
hopefully lead one to "universal benevolence" as an adult. According to SamuelPickering, Jr., a scholar of 18th-century children's literature, "in its depiction...
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