William Troy (July 11, 1903 – May 26, 1961) was an American writer and teacher.
He won the U.S. National Book Award in Arts and Letters for his Selected Essays (1967).
[1] Troy was born in Chicago and grew up in suburban Oak Park.
He was a popular teacher and lecturer on James Joyce and Shakespeare.
Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Troy was a regular literary and film critic for The Nation, but he published essays, reviews, and poems in various journals.