David Levin.

Literary scholar by degree and historian in practice, David Levin (1924-98) made important contributions to both fields and often intricately interwove literary and historical analysis. An expert in colonial and national periods of US history, Levin published his first book, 'What Happened at Salem?' in 1950 while still in graduate school. He went on to publish works on such topics as romantic history, Cotton Mather, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Benjamin Franklin. Levin's teaching career, which spanned 44 years and included stints at Stanford University and the University of Virginia, began at Harvard in 1948. Levin was inducted into the American Antiquarian Society in 1978.