Mark Royden Winchell

{{short description|American intellectual historian (1948–2008)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2025}} thumb|right|Mark Royden Winchell '''Mark Royden Winchell''' (July 24, 1948 – May 8, 2008) was a biographer, essayist, historian and literary critic. At the time of his death he was Professor of Literature and European Civilization at Clemson University in South Carolina, where he had taught since 1985.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20040821010135/http://www.knowsouthernhistory.net/Articles/Culture/dream_of_the_south.html "Dream of the South"]}}, knowsouthernhistory.net. Accessed October 26, 2022.</ref>

Winchell was born in Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio and graduated BA from West Virginia University before studying for his Ph.D. at Vanderbilt University. The journalist and author Joe Scotchie<ref>{{cite web |title=Writing on the Southern Front |url=https://www.routledge.com/Writing-on-the-Southern-Front-Authentic-Conservatism-for-Our-Times/Scotchie/p/book/9781138300927 |website=Routledge.com |access-date=28 June 2023}}</ref> described him as "A traditionalist in literature and an Old Right conservative in politics."<ref>Joe Scotchie. [http://www.clemson.edu/cedp/press/scr/articles/scr_41-1_scotchie_memoriam.pdf "Mark Royden Winchell, Last of the Vanderbilt Greats"], clemson.edu. Retrieved 2013-09-18.</ref>

Winchell died of cancer, aged 59, in 2008, at An-Med Medical Center, Anderson, South Carolina.<ref>[http://hosting-15912.tributes.com/obituary/show/Mark-Royden-Winchell-83323655 Obituary], hosting-15912.tributes.com. Accessed October 26, 2022.</ref>

He and his wife, Donna Haisty Winchell, had two sons.<ref>Clyde Wilson. [https://chroniclesmagazine.org/cultural-revolutions/mark-royden-winchell-r-i-p/ Mark Royden Winchell, RIP], Chroniclesmagazine.org. July 1, 2008. Accessed October 26, 2022.</ref>

==Bibliography==

* ''Joan Didion'', Twayne Publishers, Boston (1980; rev. ed. 1989) * ''Horace McCoy'', Boise State University, Boise (1982) * ''William F. Buckley, Jr.'', Twayne Publishers, Boston (1984) * ''Leslie Fiedler'', Twayne Publishers, Boston (1985) * ''John Gregory Dunne'', Boise State University, Boise (1986) * ''Talmadge, a Political Legacy, a Politician's Life: A Memoir'' (by Herman E. Talmadge with Mark Royden Winchell), Peachtree Publishers, Atlanta (1987) * ''Neoconservative Criticism: Norman Podhoretz, Kenneth S. Lynn, and Joseph Epstein'', Twayne Publishers, Boston (1991) * ''The Vanderbilt Tradition: Essays in Honor of Thomas Daniel Young'' (edited), Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge (1991) * ''William Humphrey'', Boise State University, Boise (1992) * ''Cleanth Brooks and the Rise of Modern Criticism'', University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville (1996) * ''Where No Flag Flies: Donald Davidson and the Southern Resistance'', University of Missouri Press, Columbia (2000) * ''Too Good to Be True: The Life and Work of Leslie Fiedler'', University of Missouri Press, Columbia (2002) * ''Reinventing the South: Versions of a Literary Region'', University of Missouri Press, Columbia (2006) * ''Ideas in Conflict: Writing about the Great Issues of Civilization'' (by Donna Haisty Winchell and Mark Royden Winchell), Thomson/Wadsworth, Boston (2007) * ''God, Man, and Hollywood: Politically Incorrect Cinema from "The Birth of a Nation" to "The Passion of the Christ"'', ISI, Wilmington (2008) * ''The Cause of Us All: Cultural Politics and the American South'', ISI, Wilmington (2011) * ''Confessions of a Copperhead: Culture and Politics in the Modern South'', Shotwell Publishing, Columbia, SC (2022)

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== * {{cite journal |last1=Winchell |first1=Mark Royden |title=From Memphis to Nashville: The Odyssey of Jerry Lee Lewis |journal=Southern Cultures |date=2000 |volume=6 |issue=4 |pages=124–129 |doi=10.1353/scu.2000.0016 |s2cid=154187464 |id={{Project MUSE|30889}} |doi-access=free }}

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