Raymond J. Smith

Raymond J. Smith (1930-2008) was for more than thirty years the editor of "Ontario Review", a literary magazine, and the Ontario Review Press, a literary book publisher, and for more than 45 years the husband of writer Joyce Carol Oates.

Smith was born in Milwaukee and received his PhD in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He taught English literature at the University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario and New York University until 1980, when he left teaching for publishing. He is also the author of "Charles Churchill", a critical study on the 18th-century British satirist, and editor of numerous anthologies of works which appeared in "Ontario Review".

The website [http://jco.usfca.edu/ray/ Celestial Timepiece] remembers him as "husband, scholar, editor, publisher, friend."

External links

* [http://www.ontarioreviewpress.com/ Ontario Review and Ontario Review Press]
* [http://www.packetonline.com/articles/2008/02/18/the_princeton_packet/obituaries/doc47b9fab6b0bd7281015464.txt Obituary, Princeton Packet]