Harry Robert Stoneback (July 14, 1941 - December 22, 2021[1]) was an American academic, poet, and folk singer.
A Hemingway, Durrell, and Faulkner scholar of international distinction,[2] Stoneback — who, as an itinerant musician in the early 1960s, collaborated with Jerry Jeff Walker (a period immortalized in Walker's 1970 song "Stoney") and played with Bob Dylan at Gerde's Folk City shortly after Dylan's arrival in New York — is best known for illuminating the religious and folkloric undertones of Modernist and allied regional literatures in more than 100 essays.
Concurrently, he served as curator of the Norman Studer Archives at the college (as an affiliate of its now-defunct Carl Carmer Center for Catskill Mountain and Hudson River Studies) from 1978 to 2001.
According to a 2019 obituary, they "played all over the United States, and they have the distinction of having the first English language album to sell over 1 million copies in China.
"[13] Stoneback "often included original song performances at the poetry readings he gave across the country.