David Wyatt teaches English at the University of Maryland, College Park,
where he has been named a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher. He
received his B.A. from Yale in 1970 and his Ph.D. from Berkeley in 1975.
He taught at the University of Virginia and Princeton before coming to
Maryland in 1987.
Wyatt was born in Lynwood, California in 1948. His two books about
California, The Fall into Eden and Five Fires, explore the rich literary
and cultural heritage of his native state. Prodigal Sons, his first book, is
an essay in career criticism. Out of the Sixties and The Turning, his
book-in-progress, deal with the imaginative productions and political fate
of the Vietnam generation. Secret History, published in 2009, attempts
a comprehensive survey of twentieth-century American literature.
Wyatt and his wife, Ann Porotti, divide their time between Charlottesville
and Cape Cod. His 2004 memoir, And the War Came, fills in the
details. He can be reached at dwyatt@umd.edu.
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