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Firchow's wife, Evelyn S. Firchow, also a professor at the University of Minnesota, is a philologist and scholar of medieval German literature. She edited a collection of Firchow's essays, "Reluctant Modernists: Aldous Huxley and Some Contemporaries". After his death Firchow was honored in a special edition of the "Aldous Huxley Annual", which included an evaluation of his criticism and announced the establishment of the "Peter Edgerly Firchow Memorial Essay Prize in Aldous Huxley Studies."