Biog. resource center (Contemp. authors), Oct. 30, 2009 (Joseph Nathaniel Frank; b. Oct. 6, 1918, New York, N.Y.; d. 1993 [sic, an error]; University of Chicago, Ph. D., 1960; educator and writer; Stanford University, professor emeritus, then professor emeritus on active duty, 1988-)
Email from NNYSL, Jan. 6, 2010 (still living: in 2008, he received an award from Stanford and a recent Wall Street journal article notes that he is "now 91 and a distinguished professor emeritus of Slavic and comparative lit at Stanford and Princeton")
His Dostoevsky, the years of ordeal, 1850-1859, c1983 CIP t.p. (Joseph Frank) Info. from sales promotion (Joseph Nathaniel Frank, Dept. of Comparative Lit., Princeton Univ.)
Stanford University, Dept. of Slavic Languages & Literature, people Web site, Jan. 7, 2010 (Joseph Frank; professor emeritus on active duty)
Tel. call to J. Frank (Joseph Nathaniel Frank, b. 1918)
New York times (online), viewed Mar. 4, 2013 (in obituary published Mar. 3: Joseph Frank; b. Joseph Nathaniel Glassman, Oct. 6, 1918, Lower East Side of Manhattan; after his father's death, his mother married William Frank; d. Wednesday [Feb. 27, 2013], Palo Alto, Calif., aged 94; his magisterial, five-volume life of Fyodor Dostoevsky was frequently cited among the greatest of 20th-century literary biographies)