Edward Spofford
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Edward Spofford is a retired academic and professor of literature at Smith College and Stanford University.
He was infamously fired from Smith after having been arrested for possession of homosexual pornography together with Newton Arvin and Joel Dorius in 1960.
In 2002, Smith acknowledged the wrongful termination of the three professors by creating a lecture series and a small scholarship, the $100,000 Dorius/Spofford Fund for the Study of Civil Liberties and Freedom of Expression, and the Newton Arvin Prize in American Studies, a $500 annual stipend.
This story was detailed in the 2001 book, The Scarlet Professor, by Barry Werth.
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