birth_place nationality language birth_date article_title name occupation alma_mater
burlington , vermont united states english 1943 james b. twitchell
 james b. twitchell author , professor university of north carolina at chapel hill
james b. twitchell

james b. twitchell is an author and former professor of english .
he was born in 1943 , in burlington , vermont .
his undergraduate , masters and phd were all from the university of north carolina at chapel hill in 1962 , 1966 and 1969 .
twitchell was a widely published , widely quoted tenured professor at the university of florida when in 2008 an investigative reporter at the `` gainesville sun '' found a pattern of plagiarizing passages from other writer 's work .
the university decided to suspend twitchell , with reinstatement conditional on twitchell properly attributing each instance of plagiarism or close paraphrasing .
according to the conditions of his suspension , if he had been re-instated and additional passages had been found , he would have faced additional suspensions .
twitchell , who was already in his sixties , chose not to appeal the ruling , and to resign his position .
`` inside higher education '' quoted grant mccracken , a blogger whose idea twitchell had used , characterizing his comment as gracious : '' `` as for twitchell , it 's sad .
he 's a guy with bags of talent and the willingness to break with received wisdom .
i hope he keeps writing . '' ''
