ABSTRACT
One of the most widely read and admired rhetoricians of the twentieth century, Wayne Booth (1921–2005) continues to influence the study of rhetoric, composition, creative writing, and literature. As a devoted teacher, he mentored thousands of students, including many eminent teachers and scholars. “Booth’s work,” writes protégé James Phelan, “has a remarkable coherence—remarkable given its wide range of subject matters: fictional technique, irony, metaphor, modernist philosophy, critical pluralism, teaching, the ethics of fiction.” 1
