William B. Bache was born in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania in 1922 and, before the war, attended Cornell and Penn State. After getting a Ph. D. from Penn State and teaching there for a y...view moreWilliam B. Bache was born in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania in 1922 and, before the war, attended Cornell and Penn State. After getting a Ph. D. from Penn State and teaching there for a year, he was a professor of English at Purdue for forty years and the last surviving founder of Modern Fiction Studied. Since 1951 he has published more than 150 articles, essays, notes, reviews, poems, and short stories, as well as three books on meaning in Shakespeare, notably, Shakespeare’s Deliberate Art. He has received many teaching awards.
Enlisting in the army in October 1942, Bache, along with 190,000 other student soldiers, was sent in March 1944 from the Air Force to the infantry, and then to the front lines in Europe. He was a member of a regimented Intelligence and Reconnaissance platoon of the 103rd Division until he was seriously wounded and spent ten months in various army hospitals.view less