Marshall McLuhan biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Marshall McLuhan

Author Name:

Marshall McLuhan

Born As:

Herbert Marshall McLuhan

Other Names:

Born:

21 Jul 1911

Died:

31 Dec 1980




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Professor of English literature, literary critic, and a communications theorist                          
Selected works:

 The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man; 1st Ed.: The Vanguard Press, NY; 1951 - reissued by Gingko Press, 2002
 The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man; 1st Ed.: Univ. of Toronto Press; 1962 - reissued by Routledge & Kegan Paul
 Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man; 1st Ed. McGraw Hill, NY; - 1964 -  reissued MIT Press, 1994, with introduction by Lewis H. Lapham; reissued by Gingko Press, 2003
The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects with Quentin Fiore, produced by Jerome Agel; 1st Ed.: Random House; - 1967 -  reissued by Gingko Press, 2001
War and Peace in the Global Village design/layout by Quentin Fiore, produced by Jerome Agel; 1st Ed.: Bantam, NY; 1968 - reissued by Gingko Press, 2001
From Cliché to Archetype with Wilfred Watson; Viking, NY - 1970.
                          
Mother Elsie Naomi Hall.
Father Herbert Ernest McLuhan - two children Herbet and brother Maurice born ten years later.
McLuhan married teacher and aspiring actress Corinne Lewis in 1939 - six children: Eric, twins Mary and Teresa, Stephanie, Elizabeth and Michael.                          
                          
Marshall" was a family name: his maternal grandmother's surname.
Years after his death he was named the "patron saint" of Wired magazine.