Richard Marius

1933–1999

Richard Marius, born at Dixie Lee Junction, Tennessee, received a degree in journalism from the university in 1954. He earned the bachelor’s degree in divinity from Southern Baptist Seminary in 1958. He then served as a Rotary Fellow in Strasbourg, France. He earned the PhD from Yale University in 1962 in Reformation history. He joined the faculty at UT in 1964 to teach history and to help in forming the Religious Studies Department. He left in 1978 to become director of the expository writing program at Harvard and retired in 1998. He was the author of three novels. His first novel, The Coming of Rain (1969), won the Friends of American Writers Prize for best first novel. His second novel, Bound for the Promised Land, was published in 1976, and his third novel, After the War, in 1992. He also wrote biographies of Reformation leader Martin Luther and Utopia author Thomas More. His biography of Thomas More was nominated for a National Book Award in 1984.

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  • Title Richard Marius
  • Coverage 1933–1999
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  • Publisher University of Tennessee Libraries
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  • Access Date July 10, 2025
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  • Date of Last Update October 9, 2018