Appreciation of Ed Ericson

David Deavel, editor (with Jessica Wilson) of the just-released Solzhenitsyn and American Culture: The Russian Soul in the West, has posted a beautiful appreciation of his teacher, the late Solzhenitsyn scholar Edward E. Ericson Jr., who himself authored two books on Solzhenitsyn and co-edited the Solzhenitsyn Reader.

For a sense of what Ericson was like, watch this lovely snippet:

Edward E. Ericson, Jr. was Professor Emeritus of English at Calvin College. He is the author of "Solzhenitsyn and the Modern World", and he also served as th...