Clifton Hillegass, American publisher, created CliffsNotes (born 1918)

Clifton Hillegass

Clifton K. Hillegass was the creator and publisher of CliffsNotes.

CliffsNotes

Student study guides

CliffsNotes are a series of student study guides. The guides present and create literary and other works in pamphlet form or online. Detractors of the study guides claim they let students bypass reading the assigned literature. The company claims to promote the reading of the…