Draft:Edward M. Burns

Edward M. Burns (March 2, 1944 – November 3, 2023) was an American editor and scholar.

Edward M. Burns
Born	1944 Brooklyn, NY
Died	2023 Mount Sinai, NY
Occupation	editor scholar teacher
Language	English
Nationality	American
Notable works	The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten (1986)

Life and career

Edward Michael Burns was born in Brooklyn, NY. After graduating with a BA from Brooklyn College in 1965, he taught high school for more than twenty years, in Brooklyn and then in Manhattan. From 1964 to 2022, he lived in the East Village, Manhattan. In 1983 he received his PhD from CUNY Graduate Center, and in 1989 joined the English department at William Paterson University, where, in 2015, he retired as Professor Emeritus. From 1997 to 2013, he was a co-editor of the academic journal TEXT (which became Textual Cultures in 2006). He died in Mount Sinai, New York, from a stroke, at age 79.

Published works

• Burns, Edward, ed. Gertrude Stein on Picasso. Liveright, 1970.
• Burns, Edward, ed. Staying on Alone: Letters of Alice B. Toklas. Liveright, 1973.
• Burns, Edward, ed. The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten. 2 vols., Columbia University Press, 1986.
• Burns, Edward, and Ulla E. Dydo, eds., with William Rice. The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder. Yale UP, 1996.
• Burns, Edward, ed., with Joshua A. Gaylord. A Tour of the Darkling Plain: The Finnegans Wake Letters of Thornton Wilder and Adaline Glasheen. University College Dublin Press, 2001.
• Burns, Edward, ed. A Passion for Joyce: The Letters of Hugh Kenner and Adaline Glasheen. University College Dublin Press, 2008.
• Burns, Edward, ed. Questioning Minds: The Letters of Guy Davenport and Hugh Kenner. 2 vols., Counterpoint Press, 2018.

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• 1944 births
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