Liliane Kerjan

Liliane Kerjan (13 February 1940 – 28 June 2021) was a French historian. She specialized in American literature.

Biography Kerjan earned a degree in English from Rennes 2 University and a doctoral degree from Blaise Pascal University in 1977. She would go on to serve as Vice-President of Rennes 2 and subsequently was Rector of the Académie de Limoges from 2000 to 2005. As part of the Fulbright Program, she was a visiting professor at the University of San Diego and Yale University.

In 1986, Kerjan began her collaboration with . In 2010, she published a biography on Tennessee Williams and another on Arthur Miller in 2012. She was also President of the from 2007 to 2020. In 2020, she published Ils ont fait un rêve, a biography on African American authors Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and James Baldwin.

Awards and honours In 2010, she received the Prix Grand Ouest from the Association des écrivains de l'Ouest.

Books Albee (1971) Le théâtre d'Edward Albee (1978) L'égalité aux États-Unis. Mythes et Réalités (1991) L'Amérique urbaine des années soixante (1994) La consommation culturelle dans le monde anglophone (1994) Voix de femmes à la scène, à l'écran (1994) Dix-huit ans, vive la liberté ! (2003) Tennessee Williams (2010) Ce que je sais d'Arthur Miller (2012) Fitzgerald : Le désenchanté (2013) Truman Capote (2015) George Washington (2015) Abraham Lincoln (2015) Ils ont fait un rêve : Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison et James Baldwin : trois grands écrivains contre le racisme (2020)

Decorations Officer of the Legion of Honour (2013)