Joan Mellen
Joan Mellen | |
|---|---|
| Born | Joan Spivack September 7, 1941 |
| Died | June 30, 2025 (aged 83) |
| Occupations | Professor and writer |
| Spouse(s) | James Mellen (m. 1966, div. 1967); Ralph Schoenman (m. 1969, div. 1982) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Hunter College; Ph.D., City University of New York |
| Thesis | Morality in the novel : a study of five English novelists, Henry Fielding, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, and D.H. Lawrence (1968) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Temple University |
Joan Mellen (née Spivack; September 7, 1941 – June 30, 2025) was an American writer and professor of English and creative writing.