Weintraub was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 17, 1929. He was the eldest child of Benjamin and Ray Segal Weintraub. He attended
South Philadelphia High School, and then he attended West Chester State Teachers College (
West Chester University of Pennsylvania) where he received his B.S. in education in 1949. He continued his education at
Temple University where he received his master's degree in English "in absentia," as he was called to duty in the
Korean War.
After the war, he enrolled at
Pennsylvania State University in September 1953; his doctoral dissertation "Bernard Shaw, Novelist" was accepted on May 6, 1956.[2]
Except for visiting appointments, he remained at Penn State for all of his career, finally attaining the rank of Evan Pugh Professor of Arts and Humanities, with emeritus status on retirement in 2000. From 1970 to 1990 he was also Director of Penn State's Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies.[5]
The Last Great Cause: The Intellectuals and the Spanish Civil War. New York: Weybright & Talley, 1968.
OCLC437500
Journey to Heartbreak ; the Crucible Years of Bernard Shaw, 1914–1918. New York: Weybright & Talley, 1971.
OCLC154871
Journey to Heartbreak: The Crucible Years of Bernard Shaw. New York: Weybright & Talley, 1971. Received the George Freedley Award from the American Theatre Library Association in 1971.[9]
Directions in Literary Criticism; Contemporary Approaches to Literature. Ed. by Stanley Weintraub & Philip Young. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1973.
ISBN0-271-01116-5OCLC609168
Saint Joan: Fifty Years After, 1923/24-1973/74. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1973.
ISBN0-8071-0208-3OCLC737250
Modern British Dramatists, 1900–1945. Dictionary of Literary Biography: Vol. 10. Detroit: Gale Research, 1982.
ISBN0-8103-0937-8OCLC7947395[10]
The Unexpected Shaw: Biographical Approaches to George Bernard Shaw and His Work. New York: Ungar, 1982.
ISBN0-8044-2974-XOCLC8729615
British Dramatists since World War II. Dictionary of Literary Biography: Vol. 13. Detroit: Gale Research, 1982.
ISBN0-8103-0936-XOCLC8195676
A Stillness Heard Round the World: the End of the Great War, November 1918. London : Allen & Unwin, 1986. American ed. published by E. P. Dutton.
ISBN0-525-24346-1OCLC11970040
Iron Tears: America's Battle for Freedom, Britain's Quagmire, 1775–1783. New York: Free Press, 2005. (also, subtitled Rebellion in America, 1775–1783. London: Simon and Schuster, 2005)
ISBN0-7432-2687-9OCLC56592341
Farewell, Victoria! English Literature 1880–1900. Greensboro, NC: ELT PRESS / University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2011.
ISBN0-944318-25-8OCLC760167199
Who's Afraid of Bernard Shaw? Some Personalities in Shaw's Plays. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011.
ISBN0-8130-3726-3OCLC707260815
Weintraub was a
Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1968–1969.[13] On 11 November 1982, the university inaugurated the "Rodelle and Stanley Weintraub Center for the Study of the Arts and Humanities," containing a collection of their books, papers and memorabilia.[9] In 2011, he was awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters by West Chester University of Pennsylvania.[14]
^Rusinko, Susan, ed. (1998).
"Introduction". Shaw and Other Matters: A Festschrift for Stanley Weintraub on the Occasion of His Forty-second Anniversary at the Pennsylvania State University. Susquehanna University Press. p. 9.
ISBN978-1-57591-008-6.
^Cave, Richard Allen (Autumn 1983). "review of Modern British Dramatists, 1900–1945 edited by Stanley Weintraub". Theatre Research International. 8 (3): 267–268.
doi:
10.1017/S0307883300007781.