William H. Pritchard (born 1932) is an American literary critic and the Henry Clay Folger Professor of English, Emeritus, at Amherst College.
[1] A graduate of Johnson City High School at age 16,[2] he earned an A.B.
(1956) and a Ph.D. in English (1960) at Harvard University,[3] with the dissertation, The uses of nature; a study of Robert Frost's poetry.
[4] Pritchard and Marietta Perl wed in August, 1957, in the Harvard University Chapel.
His academic interests include American and British 20th century fiction, poetry and literary criticism.