After early years in Westport
CT and attending Green Farms Elementary School, then
raised on a Vermont dairy farm and attending one-room
schools, Professor Bruce A. Burton (WGAw) graduated
from Deerfield Academy, Bowdoin College (BA), and, as
student of the late K.J. Fielding*, the University of
Edinburgh, Scotland, writing his thesis on Thomas Hardy
for his Masters of Letters in The Nineteenth Century
English Novel.
Returning to the US with his
wife Jamie and joining the English Department at Castleton
State College, Professor Burton taught American, English,
and Continental Literature, Greek Tragic Poetry, Native
Studies, Speech and Writing for 26 years. In addition
to novels and screen works, Professor Burton has written
and published essays on Literature, and as Eastern Bureau
Editor of The Turtle Quarterly of The Native American
Center for the Living Arts (Niagara Falls, NY) essays
on Native American Issues, Government, History, and,
as contributor to THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NATIVE AMERICAN
LEGAL TRADITION (Greenwood Press. 1998), Natural Law
(Natural Man and Woman).
*K..J. Fielding, Saintsbury Professor
of English Literature; student of J.R.R. Tolkien and
C.S. Lewis, Oxford University.
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