Richard Schwartz
Richard Schwartz
PhD 1967, University of Illinois
18th-century literature and intellectual history; creative writing
Richard B. Schwartz is the author of Samuel Johnson and the New Science (University of Wisconsin Press, 1971),Samuel Johnson and the Problem of Evil (University of Wisconsin Press, 1975), Boswell's Johnson: A Preface to the Life (University of Wisconsin Press, 1978), Daily Life in Johnson's London (University of Wisconsin Press, 1983),After the Death of Literature (Southern Illinois University Press, 1997), Nice and Noir: Contemporary American Crime Fiction (University of Missouri Press, 2002), four novels, Frozen Stare (St. Martin's Press, 1989), The Last Voice You Hear (Mystery & Suspense Press, 2001), After the Fall (Mystery & Suspense Press, 2002), Into the Dark(Mystery & Suspense Press, 2002), and two memoirs: The Biggest City in America: A Fifties Boyhood in Ohio(University of Akron Press, Ohio History and Culture Series, 1999) and Accidental Soldier: A Reserve Officer at West Point in the Vietnam Era (Hamilton Books, 2009). He is the editor of The Plays of Arthur Murphy, 4 vols. (Garland, 1979) and Theory and Tradition in Eighteenth Century-Studies (Southern Illinois University Press, 1990). He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (twice), the Institute for Research in the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies. His work has received awards or citations from the Council of Graduate Schools, Choice magazine and Writer's Digest magazine. He has also taught at the United States Military Academy, the University of Wisconsin, Madison and Georgetown University.
Richard B. Schwartz. Into the Dark (Mystery & Suspense Press, 2002)
Richard B. Schwartz. Nice and Noir: Contemporary American Crime Fiction (University of Missouri Press, 2002) www.umpress.edu
Richard B. Schwartz. The Last Voice You Hear (Mystery & Suspense Press, 2001), rpt. Midnight Ink/Llewellyn, 2006
Richard B. Schwartz. After the Fall (Mystery & Suspense Press, 2002), rpt. Midnight Ink/Llewellyn, 2007
Richard B. Schwartz. Regard de Glace. Trans. Jean-Paul Mourlon (Paris: Feuille Noire, 2008). French edition of Frozen Stare
Richard B. Schwartz. Accidental Soldier: A Reserve Officer at West Point in the Vietnam Era (Hamilton Books, 2009)
Richard B. Schwartz. Postwar Higher Education in America: Just Yesterday. Lanham, MD: Hamilton Books/Rowman and Littlefield, 2018.'
“Of the many recent histories of American higher education,Schwartz’s is by a good margin the best—not so much for its narration of the bare-bone facts as for the sensibility of the author.” (Peter Wood, ACADEMIC QUESTIONS)
Richard B. Schwartz. Into the Dark: A Tom Deaton Novel. Johnson City, TX: Dark Harbor Books, 2021. (Revised version of novel published earlier.)
“A great book,” with “flawless writing.” (Ardath Mayhar, THE WRITER’S DIGEST)
Richard B. Schwartz. The Survivor’s Song: A Tom Deaton Novel. Johnson City, TX: Dark Harbor Books, 2021.
Richard B. Schwartz. Nightmare Man: A Tom Deaton Novel. Johnson City, TX: Dark Harbor Books, 2021.
Richard B. Schwartz. Death Whispers: A Tom Deaton Novel. Johnson City, TX: Dark Harbor Books, 2022.
Richard B. Schwartz. Poison Touch: A Tom Deaton Novel. Johnson City, TX: Dark Harbor Books, 2022.
Richard B. Schwartz. No Exit: A Gwen Harrison Novel. Johnson City, TX: Dark Harbor Books, forthcoming.
Richard B. Schwartz. Red City: A Gwen Harrison Novel. Johnson City, TX: Dark Harbor Books, forthcoming.
Richard B. Schwartz. The Gray Twilight: A Gwen Harrison Novel. In progress.