[1] Born in Hanover, Connecticut, Fellows died on May 15, 1993, in Portland, Oregon, at the age of 84, but lived for most of his scholarly career in Morningside Heights in New York City.
Fellows began teaching at Columbia University in 1939, attaining the rank of professor in 1958.
Fellows co-edited a widely used anthology of 18th-century French literature entitled The Age of Enlightenment with Norman L. Torrey, his colleague at Columbia.
Fellows also wrote From Voltaire to "La Nouvelle Critique": Problems and Personalities (1970)[1][2] and co-authored a biography of Buffon with Stephen Milliken.
He was awarded the Médaille de Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French government in 1959 for his work as an American intelligence officer during the Second World War, and for his scholarship.