Edward Inman Fox (1934–2008), was a top collegiate tennis players and academic. He was a native of Nashville, Tennessee, USA, who emerged as one of the top collegiate tennis players in the United States in 1951, and was widely regarded as a rising star in the sport. However, his exceptional intellectual ability led him to set aside a promising tennis career in favor of academia. Fox was a tennis prodigy in his youth and held the No. 1 ranking on the Vanderbilt University tennis team. He graduated ''magna cum laude'' from Vanderbilt and received a Fulbright Scholarship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Wilson Fellowship for study abroad. He earned a Ph.D. in Romance Languages from Princeton University and became a leading scholar of modern Spanish literature, publishing 15 books and numerous academic articles. His contributions to Spanish cultural studies earned him international recognition. In 1993, Fox received the highest honor given by the Spanish government in the arts—the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts, by King Juan Carlos I. He held faculty appointments at Vanderbilt, Vassar, Princeton, and Northwestern, and served as dean of faculty at Vassar College and president of Knox College in Illinois.
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