James L W West III Editor & Author

James L. W. West III is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English Emeritus at Pennsylvania State University. He is a biographer, book historian, and scholarly editor. West has held fellowships from the J. S. Guggenheim Foundation, the National Humanities Center, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has had Fulbright appointments in England (at Cambridge University) and in Belgium (at the Université de Liège). From 1994 to 2019, West was the General Editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, now complete in eighteen volumes, sixteen under his editorship. His variorum edition of The Great Gatsby was the final volume in the series.