James B. Twitchell is an American author and former professor of English.
His undergraduate, Masters and PhD were all from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1962, 1966 and 1969.
[1] Twitchell was a widely published, widely quoted tenured professor at the University of Florida when in 2008 an investigative reporter at the Gainesville Sun found a pattern of plagiarizing passages from other writer's work.
Twitchell, who was already in his sixties, chose not to appeal the ruling, and to resign his position.
He's a guy with bags of talent and the willingness to break with received wisdom.