1. Herbert Marshall McLuhan

2. Life Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, July 21, 1911.
University of Manitoba: B. A., 1932; M. A., Cambridge University: B. A., 1936; M. A., 1939; Ph. D., 1942.
Taught at University of Wisconsin (Madison): Taught at St. Louis University: Taught at Assumption University (Windsor, Ontario): Taught at St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto: Full professor: 1952.

3. Married Corinne Keller Lewis of Fort Worth, Texas: 1939.
Chairman of Ford Foundation Seminar on Culture and Communication:
Co-Editor of Explorations magazine:
Director of Project in Understanding New Media for National Association of Educational Broadcasters and U. S. Office of Education:
Appointed in 1963 by the President of the University of Toronto to create a new Centre for Culture and Technology, to study the psychic and social consequences of technologies and media.
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada: 1964.
Companion of the Order of Canada: 1970.

4. Honorary Degrees · University of Windsor -1965D. Litt.
·  Assumption University -1966D. Litt. 
·  University of Manitoba-1967D. Litt. 
·  Simon Fraser University -1967LL.D. 
·  Grinnell University-1967D. Litt. 
·  St, John Fisher College -1969Lit. Hum. 
·  University of Alberta -1971LL. D. 
·  University of Western Ontario -1972D. Litt. 
·  University of Toronto -1977D. Litt. 

5. Awards
Honorary Award in Culture and Communication (New York: Niagara University): 1967.
Molson Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Social Sciences: 1967.
Appointment to the Albert Schweitzer Chair in the Humanities,
Fordham University, New York:
The Institute of Public Relations President’s Award (Great Britain): 1970.
Gold Medal Award from President of the Italian Republic at Rimini,
Italy, in recognition of original work as philosopher of the mass media: 1971.
Christian Culture Award, Assumption University: 1971.

6. President’s Cabinet Award, University of Detroit: 1972.
Vatican appointment as Consulter of the Pontifical Commission for
Social Communications: 1973.
Citation from The Religious Educational Association of the United
States and Canada: 1973.
Civic Award of Merit, given by Mayor David Crombie at Toronto City
Hall: 1974.
“Man of Achievement” Diploma from the International Biographical Centre (Cambridge, England): 1975.
Appointed to the McDermott Chair at the University of Dallas (Texas):

7. Distinguished Lectures
Second Annual A.V.B. Geoghegan Lecture, University of Pennsylvania: 1966.
Marfleet Lectures, University of Toronto: 1967.
Purves Memorial Lecture, American Institute of Architects (New York): 1967.
Congressional Breakfast (Washington, D. C.): 1970.
Gillett Lecture Series, University of Western Ontario: 1970.
Mary C. Richardson Lecture, State University College of Arts and Science 9Geneseo, New York): 1970.
Gerstein Lecture Series, York University (Toronto): 1971.
The fourth annual Pound Lecture in the Humanities, University of Idaho, 1978.

8. Interesting Quotations
Whereas convictions depend on speed-ups, justice requires delay.
The nature of people demands that most of them be engaged in the most
frivolous possible activities—like making money.
We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into
the future.

9. Spaceship earth is still operated by railway conductors, just as NASA is
managed by men with Newtonian goals.
Invention is the mother of necessities.
Mud sometimes gives the illusion of depth.
Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones?

10. Today each of us lives several hundred years in a decade.
Today the business of business is becoming the constant invention of new business.
Tomorrow is our permanent address.
All advertising advertises advertising.
The answers are always inside the problem, not outside.
This information is top security. When you have read it, destroy yourself.
The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.

11. The missing link created far more interest than all the chains and explanations of being.
When a thing is current, it creates currency.
Men on frontiers, whether of time or space, abandon their previous identities. Neighborhood gives identity. Frontiers snatch it away.
The ignorance of how to use new knowledge stockpiles exponentially.
At the speed of light, policies and political parties yield place to charismatic images.
“I may be wrong, but I’m never in doubt.”

12. Published Books 1934-George Meredith as a Poet and Dramatic Parodist.
1941-The Place of Thomas Nashe in the Learning of his Time.
1951-The Mechanical Bride; Folklore of Industrial Man.
1956-Alfred Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry.
1960-Explorations in Communication: An Anthology.

13. 1962-The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man.
1964-Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man.
1965-Voices of Literature, Book Two: The Second of a Two-Volume Anthology for High Schools Compiled and with Notes and Commentary

14. 1967-Verbi-Voco-Visual Explorations. [Explorations 8 as a book].
-Something Else Press.
-The Medium is the Massage.
1968-War and Peace in the Global Village: An inventory of some of the current spastic situations that could be eliminated by more feedforward.
- Through the Vanishing Point: Space in Poetry and Painting.
1969-The Interior Landscape: The Literary Criticism of Marshall McLuhan
-Counterblast.
The McLuhan Dew-Line Newsletter..

15. 1970-Culture Is Our Business. 
1972-Take Today: The Executive as Drop Out.
1977-City as Classroom: Understanding Language and Media.
 1980-Media, Messages and Language: The World as Your Classroom.
1987-Letters of Marshall McLuhan.
1988-Laws of Media: The New Science.
-The Global Village: Transformations in World Life and Media in the 21st Century.
1989-Marshall McLuhan: The Man and his Message.
1995-Essential McLuhan.

16. Work Cited
Marchand, Philip. "Marshall McLuhan." The Official Site of Marshall McLuhan. Quiet PC, July Web. 17 Apr <
"Marshall McLuhan." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc, 16 Apr Web. 17 Apr <