Author talk:William Alfred Morris

Biography
Author, historian and educator from the western United States, especially noted for his contributions to scholarship on medieval England. Born 24 May 1875. Educated at Stanford University (BA, 1901) and, after teaching, Harvard University (PhD, 1907) where he held Austin (1904-05) and then Tappan (1905-06) scholarships. He taught at the University of Washington between 1907 and 1912, when he joined the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley. He retired in 1945, and died in 1946.