James Thorpe (born August 17, 1915, in Aiken, South Carolina, died January 4, 2009, in Bloomfield, Connecticut)[1] was the director of the Huntington Library, and a professor of English at Princeton University.
He was the author of a biography of the library namesake, Henry Edwards Huntington.
[2] Thorpe served in the United States Army Air Forces from 1941 to 1946, participating in World War II.
He earned the rank of colonel and a Bronze Star Medal.
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