Kathleen Verduin and Christopher James Prins, editors, A. James Prins: A Life in Literature (Holland, Michigan, 2007).
Jim Prins, a professor in Hope College’s English Department from 1946 to 1981, was legendary for his impassioned courses on the classic novels of the United States, England, continental Europe, and Russia. This book collects Prins’s public writings—the famous “Last Chance Talk,” literary essays and reviews, a chapter from his dissertation on Bleak House, and a 1975 interview—but also a treasury of his carefully prepared lecture notes, where former students will hear his voice again. Memoirs and poems by colleagues, friends, and family complete the volume.