Greg Barnhisel
February 17 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
The Oklahoma Center for Humanities welcomes Professor Greg Barnhisel for a free event at 101 Archer on Thursday, February 13 at 7:00 pm.
Norman Holmes Pearson might have looked like the tweedy Yale professor he was, but he was one of the most consequential figures in twentieth-century American literature; an architect of the Cold War collaboration between academia and cultural diplomacy; and a high-ranking spy in the OSS and one of the shapers of the CIA.
In this talk (drawn from his new book Code Name Puritan: Norman Holmes Pearson at the Nexus of Poetry, Espionage, and American Power), Greg Barnhisel will give an overview of Pearson’s unique career as a spymaster, cultural diplomat, and literary fixer, and reflect on whether the unlikely combination that Pearson represented might have been a secret weapon for the U.S. in the Cold War. Book signing to follow. Magic City Books will be onsite selling copies of Code Name Puritan.
