Leo Lemay
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Leo Lemay (also known as J.A. Leo Leomay) is du Pont Winterthur Professor of English at the University of Delaware. He is probably most renowned for his lifelong fascination with Benjamin Franklin although he has written on many topics, included Edgar Allan Poe.[1]
Lemay was selected by Library of America to edit two of its selections on Franklin. His edition of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, co-edited with Paul Zall, is generally recognized as the most authoritative.
In the 1990s, he put up the first substantial web resource to share with Franklin scholars and biographers in "Benjamin Franklin: A Documentary History." [2]
The Documentary History was preparation for arguably his greatest investigation, a projected seven-volume biography of Franklin. Two of the volumes were published in 2006, by the University of Pennsylvania Press, in time for Franklin's Tercentennial.
The American Historical Review (Feb. 2007) called his first two volumes, "a labor of love balanced by thoughtful criticism. There is nothing like it." [3]
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