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James F. Light (1921 – 2002) was an American literary scholar, professor, and academic administrator. During his academic career, he helped revive the works of satirist Nathanael West, with the first book length critical study of West's work, Nathanael West: An Interpretive Study (1961). He was also the leading authority on John William De Forest, the early American realist whose work he critiqued in John William De Forest (1965), and he wrote extensively on J. D. Salinger, Robert Penn Warren and others. His essay, "The Religion of Death in A Farewell to Arms" was collected by Hemingway scholar Carlos Baker in Baker's Ernest Hemingway: A Critique of Four Major Novels.