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Gilbert Arthur Highet was a Scottish-American classicist, academic, writer, intellectual, critic and literary historian.

Born in Scotland

Scotland

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, Gilbert Highet is best known as a mid-20th-century teacher of the humanities

Humanities

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in the United States. He attended Glasgow University and Balliol College, Oxford

Balliol College, Oxford

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, becoming a fellow of St John's College, Oxford

St John's College, Oxford

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in 1932, where he remained for six years. He had met his wife, the well-known novelist Helen MacInnes, while they were fellow-students at Glasgow, and they married in 1932.