He completed his B.S. at Manhattan College and his M.A. and Ph.D. at Columbia University in the Department of French & Romance Philology. His article on Samuel Richardson appeared in the Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment (Oxford University Press) along with three articles in the Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era (Fitzroy Dearborn), notably “Pre-Romanticism: France.” Other notable publications are “Jacques Bénigne Bossuet” and “François Mauriac” in Scribner’s European Writers. Dr. Frail has also written more than twenty critical studies for various reference works by Salem Press and Fitzroy Dearborn.