Harry Levin
by Harry Levin
Harry Levin
Harry Levin (1912–1994), literary critic and modernist literature scholar, graduated from Harvard University and began teaching there some years later. In 1960 he became Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard and retired in 1983. He continued to live in Cambridge, Massachusetts with his wife, Elena Zarudnaya, until his death in 1994. He and his wife had a daughter, Marina.