Julian Lane Moynahan, 88, died on Friday, March 21, 2014 from pneumonia.  Born in Cambridge, Mass, Julian lived in the Princeton area for 59 years retiring as a Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University having also taught English at Harvard, Amherst, Princeton and University College, Dublin.  Born in 1925, Julian attended Harvard both as a graduate and an undergraduate, earning his PHD from Harvard in 1957. It was a at Harvard that he met his beloved wife Elizabeth Reilly where she was a student at Radcliffe and that marriage would last 68 years until his death.

A distinguished literary critic and acclaimed novelist Julian was the author of four novels: Sisters and Brothers , Pairing Off , Garden State and Where Land and Water Meet. His literary criticism included The Deed of Life: A Critical Study of D.H. Lawrence , Vladimir Nabokov, Anglo-Irish: The Literary Imagination in a Hyphenated Culture , editor: (D.H. Lawrence) Sons and Lovers: Text, Criticism, Backgrounds , The Viking Portable Thomas Hardy . He contributed reviews and criticism to the New York Times Book Review , The Times Literary Supplement , The Washington Post Book World, The New York Review of Books and the Journal of the American Irish Historical Society, The Observer and The New Statesman. His awards included The National Foundation of the Arts-Creative Writing, The Ingram-Merrill Award, and National Endowment for the Arts, The Guggenheim Fellowship. He also served on the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Jury.  On retirement as a Professor of English Emeritus he continued to teach outside of the walls of the University, focusing on Thomas Hardy and other giants of English Literature.

While always returning to live in the Princeton area, Julian and his architect wife Elizabeth accompanied by their three daughters wrote and taught during his Sabbatical years in London, Dublin and London again.  Julian's wit, humor and brilliance both in and out of the classroom influenced and inspired a multitude of individuals.

Julian is predeceased by his beloved eldest daughter Catherine (husband, Beckman) and is survived by his wife Elizabeth Reilly, daughters Brigid Elizabeth Moynahan (husband, Ray) and Molly Mary Ellen Moynahan (husband, Timothy) as well as four grandchildren, Henry Moynahan Rich, Julian Brizzi, Lucia Brizzi, Lucas Moynahan Helliker and a new great grandchild, Charles Brizzi.

There will be a Memorial Service held in May.