Walter J. Kaiser (May 31, 1931 – January 5, 2016) was an American academic.
He was the Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at Harvard University.
[2][1] In 1966, Kaiser married Neva Goodwin, a member of the Rockefeller family.
[3] They had two children, Miranda and David Kaiser.
He earned a BA and PhD from Harvard University.