Lyall Powers

{{Short description|American academic (1924–2018)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2025}} '''Lyall H. Powers''' (July 13, 1924 – May 15, 2018) was a professor of English at the University of Michigan, where he taught since 1958.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/lyall-powers-obituary?pid=189048241|title=Lyall Powers obituary|last=|first=|date=18 May 2018|website=Legacy.com|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=April 6, 2020}}</ref> He was granted emeritus status by the University's Regents during their October 1992 meeting.<ref>[http://www.umich.edu/~urecord/9293/Oct26_92/7.htm Powers, Riordan, Buning granted emeritus status]. The University Record. October 26, 1992. Accessed 16 Aug. 2006.</ref>

Powers wrote widely on modern American authors, and with Leon Edel, edited the complete notebooks of Henry James (Oxford University Press, 1987).<ref>{{Cite news|last=Rowe|first=John Carlos|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-01-18-bk-5394-story.html|title=The Complete Notebooks of Henry James|date=January 18, 1987|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=April 6, 2020}}</ref> One of his most widely circulated books is ''Alien Heart'' (University of Manitoba Press, 2005), a biography of Canadian author Margaret Laurence. A lifelong friend of Laurence, Powers met her when they were students together in the 1940s. The book is described as "the first full-length biography of Margaret Laurence that combines personal knowledge and insights about Laurence with a study of her work".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://uofmpress.ca/books/detail/alien-heart|title=Alien Heart: The Life and Work of Margaret Laurence|last=|first=|date=|website=University of Manitoba Press|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=April 6, 2020}}</ref>

Powers' archives are held at the University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://umlarchives.lib.umanitoba.ca/lyall-powers-fonds|title=Lyall Powers fonds|last=|first=|date=|website=University of Manitoba Archives|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=April 6, 2020}}</ref>

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