Roland Frye

Professor Roland Mushat Frye (??? — January 20 2005 was an American English literature scholar and theologian.

Frye was born in Birmingham, Alabama. In 1943 he interrupted his studies to enlist in the United States Army and fought at the Battle of the Bulge, winning a Bronze Star.

After the war, Frye joined Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C., but missed teaching. He was Schelling Professor of English Literature University of Pennsylvania from 1965 until his retirement in 1983. In 1978, he co-founded the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton.

Frye was awarded the Thomas Jefferson Award by the American Philosophical Society. He was a Presbyterian elder.

Bibliography

• Milton's Imagery and the Visual Arts
• Is God a Creationist: The Religious Case Against Creation-Science
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