E.D. Hirsch, Jr.

E.D. Hirsch, Jr. (born March 22, 1928, Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.) is an American literary critic and educator who is best known for his Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (1987). He also cowrote The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (1988; with Joseph F. Kett and James Trefil) and was the main editor of A First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (1989). Hirsch graduated from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (B.A., 1950), and earned a doctorate...