Stephen Allen Fender (6 August 1936 – 26 June 2026) was an American-born British academic and writer.
Life and career Fender was born in San Francisco, California. He attended high school in Connecticut, and attended Stanford University, earning his BA degree. He worked as a copyboy for the San Francisco Chronicle. He also attended Cardiff University and Manchester University, earning his PhD degree.
Fender served as a professor at University College London and the University of Sussex, where he taught American studies. He was also a lecturer in American literature at the University of Edinburgh. As a writer, he wrote the books Plotting the Golden West: American Literature and the Rhetoric of the California Trail, Sea Changes: British Emigration and American Literature, American and European National Identities: Faces in the Mirror, and American Literature in Context, I.
Death Fender died at his home on 26 June 2026, at the age of 89.
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