Elizabeth Ammons
# Elizabeth Ammons

Elizabeth Ammons is professor emerita at Tufts University. She was previously the Harriet B. Fay Professor of Literature at Tufts University.

## Early life and education

Ammons attended University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.

## Publications

Select books:

* Critical essays on Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1979
* Edith Wharton's argument with America, 1980
* Conflicting stories : American women writers at the turn into the twentieth century, 1990
* Ethan Frome, 2005
* Brave new words : how literature will save the planet, 2010
