Walter Jackson Bate, American author and critic (born 1918)

Walter Jackson Bate

American literary critic and biographer (1918–1999)

Walter Jackson Bate was an American literary critic and biographer. He is known for Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography-winning biographies of Samuel Johnson (1978) and John Keats (1964). Samuel Johnson also won the 1978 U.S. National Book Award in Biography.