Peter elbow biography

American academic

Peter Elbow (born April 14, 1935) is a professor of English Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he also directed the Writing Program from 1996 until 2000.

He writes about theory, practice, and pedagogy, and has authored several books and papers. He is one of the pioneers of freewriting.^[1]

Biography

In the introduction to the second edition of Writing Without Teachers, Elbow says that his interest in writing practices came from his own difficulty with writing.

Peter elbow biography

He attended Proctor Academy and Williams College from 1953 to 1957. While at Exeter College, Oxford University, on scholarship from Williams, he found himself unable to write the assigned essays.^[2] When he began his PhD in English at Harvard University, his writing difficulties persisted, causing him to leave in the first year of his studies.

Elbow began teaching, first as an instructor at MIT from 1960 to 1963, and then as one of five foundi