John Jenkins Espey

John Jenkins Espey (1913–2000) was an American novelist, memoirist, and literary scholar born in Shanghai to Presbyterian missionary parents. He taught English at the University of California, Los Angeles, and wrote memoirs, novels, and scholarly works on writers such as Ezra Pound, George Eliot, and Oscar Wilde.

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