Edward Willett Wagner

Edward Willett Wagner (August 7, 1924 – December 7, 2001) was an American academic and a professor of Korean studies at Harvard University; he was an expert on Korean aristocracy during the Joseon period.

Biography Wagner was born in Cleveland, Ohio to Theodore and Gertrude Wagner; Wagner had an older brother Ted, a twin brother Walter, a younger brother John, and a younger sister Rachel. After resuming his undergraduate work at Harvard in 1948, he received his bachelor's degree and master's degree from Harvard and his PhD from there in 1959.

Works The Korean Minority in Japan, 1904-1950 (1951) The Literati Purges: Political Conflict in Early Yi Korea (1974–1975) A New History of Korea (English translation)