Rita K. Gollin
 Rita K. Gollin was born on January 22 1928 in Brooklyn NY. She attended Queens College for undergraduate studies before earning her Ph.D. in English from the University of Minnesota in 1961. Gollin is Distinguished Professor Emerita of English at the State University of New York at Geneseo. Gollin is a scholar of the life and works of Nathaniel Hawthorne on whom she has authored several books and many articles.