N. John Hall

N. John Hall (born 1933) is an American biographer and scholar best known for his books on Anthony Trollope and Max Beerbohm.

In addition, Hall has published many articles, editions, introductions, and book chapters on both Trollope and Beerbohm.

[1] Hall was a Professor of English at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York (1970-2010) and at the CUNY Graduate Center (1980-2010).

Hall has received numerous scholarly awards including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities; the American Council of Learned Societies; and, from the Guggenheim Foundation in 1976 and 1984.

This interest began in graduate school where his dissertation was an annotated edition of a never-before-published book of social criticism by Trollope (1855–56).

Of Correspondance, Colleen Mondor writes that the book “serves as an armchair education on Victorian literature.