David Wyatt

David Wyatt teaches and writes about twentieth-century American literature, although he sometimes strays across the Atlantic to do essays about Shakespeare or Galsworthy. Born and raised in California, he has also published two books about the history and literature of his native state, The Fall into Eden: Landscape and Imagination in California, and Five Fires: Race, Catastrophe, and the Shaping of California.

In 2010, Wyatt published Secret Histories: Reading Twentieth-Century American Literature. When America Turned: Reckoning with 1968, a book reflecting his ongoing interest in the fate of the Sixties generation, was brought out in 2014. Hemingway, Style, and the Art of Emotion appeared in 2015. Wyatt is currently at work on a memoir called "The Passenger Side.” This project extends the work begun in And the War Came: An Accidental Memoir, published in 2004.

In 2018, Wyatt published an edited volume in a new series from Cambridge. The volume was called American Literature in Transition: 1960-1970 and contained essays by twenty-three different hands. contributiosnfrom twenty-three scholars entit

In 1999, Wyatt was named a University of Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher.