About
American literary essayist who had substantial academic influence on modern literary critiques. He originated the now-popular term "unreliable narrator" in his work. He proposed that the author and the text cannot be separated because they are one and the same to the reader of the book.
Before Fame
He graduated from American Fork High School in Utah in 1938. He studied literature at Brigham Young University and the University of Chicago.
Trivia
He was a member of the Church of Latter-Day Saints and the American Philosophical Society. He was so beloved as a faculty member at the University of Chicago, the annual Wayne C. Booth Graduate Student Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching was created in 1991.
Family Life
His devout Mormon parents were Wayne Chipman Booth and Lillian Clayson Booth. His older brother died in childhood.
Associated With
Both he and fellow essayist Arlo Bates wrote critiques that examined and deconstructed meta-cognitive formalism in authorship.
