Peter Edgerly Firchow (December 16, 1937 – October 18, 2008) was an American literary scholar and educator.
[1][2][3] Peter Firchow was born December 16, 1937, in Needham, Massachusetts, United States, to a German father and Costa Rican mother.
In 1942, during World War II, Firchow's father was deported from the USA as a hostile alien, and the family followed him to Germany.
[8] She edited a collection of Firchow's essays, Reluctant Modernists: Aldous Huxley and Some Contemporaries.
After his death Firchow was honored in a special edition of the Aldous Huxley Annual, which included an evaluation of his criticism and announced the establishment of the "Peter Edgerly Firchow Memorial Essay Prize in Aldous Huxley Studies.