Finley Melville Kendall Foster

Born in 1892, he was an American scholar and writer whose published work centered on literature, translation, and bibliography. Library and catalog records link his name most strongly with English Translations from the Greek: A Bibliographical Survey, first published in 1918, a reference work that helped chart how Greek texts had been carried into English.

Case Western Reserve University's English department records show that he taught there from 1928 until 1953. The same record describes him as a professor, department chair, graduate chair, and an important faculty administrator, suggesting that his influence reached well beyond the classroom.

Book records also connect him with titles such as Victorian Prose and Poems to Ianthe, showing a range that included editing, criticism, and literary scholarship. No suitable confirmed portrait was found in the sources reviewed here.