Dr. Murray Ellison received a Master’s in Education from Temple University (1973), a Master’s Degree of Arts in English Literature from Virginia Commonwealth University (2015), and a Doctorate in Education at Virginia Tech (1988). He is married and has three adult daughters. He retired as the Virginia Director of Community Corrections for the Department of Correctional Education in 2009. He is the founder and chief editor of this literary blog and is an editor for the International Correctional Education Journal. He is Co-Editor of the 2017 Poetry Book, Mystic Verses by Shambhushivananda. He also serves as a board member, volunteer tour guide, and the Facilities Planning Committee Coordinator at the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, VA, and writes a monthly column for the Museum website, thepoeblog.org. He has taught literature classes on Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, and F.Scott Fitzgerald (thus far) at the OSHER Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Richmond. He is the organizer and Coördinator of The First Fridays Classic Book Club, and is the co-organizer, along with Rebecca Elizabeth Jones, of the VCU Working Titles Book Club. Contact Murray at ellisonms2@vcu.edu, or leave a Comment at the bottom of any post.
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Litchatte.com Posts Index from July 1, 2016, through July 30, 2017. Written by Murray Ellison Unless Otherwise Noted
| www.Litchatte.Com Post Title | Category | Date Published |
| A Review of Huckleberry Finn Reviews | Literature | 7/29/2017 |
| Illustration of Huckleberry Finn’s 1885 Edition | Literature | 7/22/2017 |
| A Confederacy, Catcher, and A Cornucopia by Rebecca Jones | Literature | 7/21/2017 |
| Confederacy- Slavery by Rebecca Jones | Literature | 7/20/2017 |
| Confederacy – New Orléans by Rebecca Jones | Literature | 7/19/2017 |
| Confederacy of the Dunces by Rebecca Jones | Literature | 7/18/2017 |
| Huck and Jim’s Heroic Journey | Literature | 7/16/2017 |
| Pap’s “Guvment” Speech | Literature | 7/13/2107 |
| Don Quixote and Huck Finn | Literature | 7/11/2017 |
| Twain Connects Mark Twain and Huck Finn | Literature | 7/3/2017 |
| Senator McCain and George Orwell’s 1984 | Literature | 6/15/2017 |
| Emily Dickinson Exhibit at the Morgan Museum | Literature | 5/23/2017 |
| Invitation to Comment on 1984 | Literature | 5/15/2017 |
| Beauty and the Beast: Tale as Olde as Time | Literature | 5/10/2017 |
| Orange in Black and White | Literature | 5/3/2017 |
| Virginia Tech Tragedy, Tim Kaine, and the Holocaust | Literature | 4/18/2017 |
| Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankel | Literature | 4/14/2017 |
| Reading Tom Sawyer as a Child and as an Adult | Literature | 4/4/2017 |
| Poe’s Shipwreck Story Foreshadows Eureka | Literature | 3/16/2017 |
| Book Clubs: The Book that Matters Most by Ann Hood | Literature | 3/14/2017 |
| Of Mice and Men and the Unfamiliar | Literature | 2/10/2017 |
| Travels with Charley by Steinbeck– Part II | Literature | 1/8/2017 |
| Poe’s Attitude About Science | Literature | 12/12/2016 |
| Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck – Part II | Literature | 12/5/2016 |
| Fantastic Beasts Lose their Potter Magic | Literature | 11/30/2016 |
| The Crown: Best History and Fairy Tale on TV | Literature | 11/22/2016 |
| The Paris Wife and Hemingway’s Moveable Feast | Literature | 11/18/2016 |
| Great Books Don’t Often Make Great Movies | Literature | 11/9/2016 |
| Poe Has Some Words With a Mummy | Literature | 10/30/2016 |
| Madwomen in Gothic Literature | Literature | 10/28/2016 |
| Private Perry is Mr. Edgar Allan Poe | Literature | 10/20/2016 |
| Jane Eyre and 19th Century Literature | Literature | 10/18/2016 |
| Jane Eyre’s Moral Compass | Literature | 10/7/2016 |
| Charlotte Bronte’s Life Informs Jane Eyre | Literature | 9/29/2016 |
| Evaluating Poe’s Eureka: A Prose Poem | Literature | 9/1/2017 |
| Twain’s Wisdom & Humor in The Prince & Pauper | Literature | 8/28/2016 |
| Favorite Characters in Literature | Literature | 8/22/2016 |
| Poe’s Oval Portrait and Dorian Gray | Literature | 8/11/2016 |
| Remembering the Positively Poe Conference | Literature | 8/4/2016 |
| A Merchant of Venice at Agecroft Hall | Literature | 8/1/2016 |
| Marriage of Opposites: Book Review by Ann Luck | Literature | 7/5/2016 |
| Ralph Stanley: True American Hero | Literature | 7/1/2016 |
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