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Coffin, Tristram Potter, 1922-2012
Image Not Available for Coffin, Tristram Potter, 1922-2012

Coffin, Tristram Potter, 1922-2012

NationalityAmerican
BiographyTristram Potter Coffin was an American folklorist and leading scholar of ballad texts in the 20th century. Coffin spent the bulk of his career at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a professor of English and a co-founder of the Folklore Department. He was the author of 20 books and more than 100 scholarly articles and reviews.--Wikipedia.