Harris Francis Fletcher (23 October 1892 – July 1979) was an American academic, professor of English at the University of Illinois for 36 years from 1926 to 1962,[1] an author, and a leading authority on the work of John Milton.
Fletcher was Professor of English at the University of Illinois from 1926 to 1962, and Associate Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences from 1931 to 1938.
[1] Fletcher played a major role in the establishment of the university's Rare Book and Special Collections Library, which now include the largest collection of the works of the poet John Milton in the United States.
On July 8, 1915, he married Mary Ellen Davis in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
Mary Ellen Davis died of influenza in the flu pandemic October 20, 1918.