Robert Y. Turner ’48

Bobby was born Feb. 19, 1927. He attended Mt. Zion Institute in his hometown of Winnsboro, N.C., and came to Princeton in the summer of 1944.

After earning a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, for more than 40 years he was a professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. His academic specialty in teaching, research, and publications was Renaissance drama, with a special focus on Shakespeare. In 1974 he received a Guggenheim fellowship.

Bobby died Jan. 16, 2021, in Haverford, Pa., at the age of 93. He is survived by a cousin, Lillian J. Howland.