Richard Mitchell

Richard Mitchell was a professor, first of English and later of classics, at Glassboro State College in Glassboro, New Jersey. He gained fame in the late-1970s as the founder and publisher of The Underground Grammarian, a newsletter of opinion and criticism that ran until 1992, and wrote four books expounding his views on the relationships among language, education, and ethics. ^{Richard Mitchell, American author and educator (d. 2002)}

26 April 1929

Born on the same birth day (26 April): AD 121 • Alice de Toeni, Countess of Warwick • Bernard Malamud • Channing Tatum • Charles Farrar Browne • Charles Goodyear (politician) • Gian Paolo Lomazzo • James Dooley (Australian politician) • James Holt (historian) • Jordan Pefok • Kosuke Fukudome • Ma Rainey • Peter II of Portugal • Sharon Carstairs • Susannah Harker

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