by Provost Peggy Agouris | January 25, 2021 Provost Peggy Agouris sent the following message to the campys community on Jan. 14, 2021. - Ed. Dear Colleagues, I write to share the news that Scott Donaldson, Louise G.T. Cooley Professor of English, Emeritus, died of lung cancer on December 1, 2020 at his home in Scottsdale, Arizona. Prof. Donaldson was a renowned literary biographer and, with his wife Vivian, a very generous financial supporter of William & Mary’s English department, endowing the English department’s Donaldson Writer in Residence fund. Scott Donaldson was born in Minneapolis on November 11, 1928, the third and last child of Frank Arthur and Ruth Chase Donaldson, and maintained residence in that city until his late-30s. He attended Blake School, class of 1946, and Yale University '50. He earned his M.A. in English from the University of Minnesota in 1953, and served in the Army Security Agency during the Korean War. Upon discharge he began working as a cub reporter on the Minneapolis Star, covering local government and schools in the rapidly growing suburbs of Bloomington, Richfield, and Edina, and later became editor-publisher of the Bloomington Sun and executive editor of the chain of Sun papers around the Twin Cities.