Russell Kirk

Russell Kirk was born in 1918 in Plymouth, Michigan, where his father was a railroad engineer. He studied history at Michigan State College and earned a master's degree at Duke University. During the Second World War he served in the United States armed forces. After the war he studied at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, where in 1953 he became the first American awarded its Doctor of Letters. His dissertation became The Conservative Mind (1953), a study of thinkers from Edmund Burke to T. S. Eliot that helped shape American conservatism after the war. He taught at Michigan State but resigned in 1953 and chose to write from his family's home in Mecosta, Michigan, known as Piety Hill. He wrote many books on history, politics and education, a long-running column, and ghost stories and other fiction. He also helped found the journal Modern Age. In 1963 he became a Catholic and married Annette Courtemanche; they had four daughters. He died at Piety Hill in 1994.

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Faith: Raised in a culturally Protestant environment, he was drawn over time to Catholicism. Source: Wikipedia