Leon J. Podles is an American author.
[1] Podles attended Calvert Hall.
He graduated from Providence College with a BA and received a PhD in medieval English and Icelandic literature from the University of Virginia.
[2] In 2001, Podles and his wife Mary Elizabeth, donated more than $1.5 million to endow the Kennedy Smith Chair in Catholic Studies at McGill University in memory of Mary Elizabeth's father.
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