Facts: - influences: erich auerbach , northrop frye , william j. bossenbrook - major works: '' '' metahistory : the historical imagination in nineteenth-century europe - birth date: 12 july 1928 - main interests: theory of history - name: hayden white - influenced: sharon traweek - birth place: martin , tennessee - alma mater: university of michigan Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of hayden white .
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hayden white -lrb- born july 12 , 1928 , martin , tennessee -rrb- is a historian in the tradition of literary criticism , perhaps most famous for his work '' metahistory : the historical imagination in nineteenth-century europe '' -lrb- 1973/2014 -rrb- .he has argued that historical writing mirrors literary writing in many ways , sharing the strong reliance on narrative for meaning , therefore ruling out the possibility for objective or truly scientific history .white has also argued , however , that history is most successful when it embraces this '' narrativity '' , since it is what allows history to be meaningful .he is currently professor emeritus at the university of california , santa cruz , having recently retired from the position of professor of comparative literature at stanford university .