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According to Wikipedia, J. A. Leo Lemay was du Pont Winterthur Professor of English at the University of Delaware. He was most renowned for his lifelong fascination with Benjamin Franklin, although he wrote on many topics, including Edgar Allan Poe, Ebenezer Cooke, and Joel Barlow.

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Mon Cher Papa: Franklin and the Ladies of Paris (1967) (31)
The life of Benjamin Franklin (2006) (28)
Reappraising Benjamin Franklin : a bicentennial perspective (1994) (20)
The Psychology of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1982) (18)
The American Dream of Captain John Smith. (1992) (18)
The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin : a genetic text (1984) (18)
Men of letters in colonial Maryland (1973) (17)
Benjamin Franklin's autobiography: An authoritative text, backgrounds, criticism (1986) (15)
Ebenezer Kinnersley, Franklin's friend (1964) (13)
Finding colonial Americas : essays honoring J.A. Leo Lemay (2001) (12)
The Correspondence of the Three William Byrds of Westover, Virginia, 1684-1776 (1978) (12)
The American Origins of "Yankee Doodle" (1976) (12)
Did Pocahontas Save Captain John Smith (1992) (12)
Deism, Masonry, and the Enlightenment : essays honoring Alfred Owen Aldridge (1988) (10)
A Rational Millennium: Puritan Utopias of Seventeenth-Century England and America. (1988) (7)
An early American reader (1989) (7)
The Oldest Revolutionary: Essays on Benjamin Franklin. (1976) (7)
The Text, Tradition, and Themes of "The Big Bear of Arkansas" (1975) (6)
The Canon of Benjamin Franklin, 1772-1776: New Attributions and Reconsiderations. (1986) (6)
Autobiography, Poor Richard, and later writings : letters from London, 1757-1775, Paris, 1776-1785, Philadelphia, 1785-1790, Poor Richard's almanack, 1733-1758, the autobiography (1997) (6)
Reappraising Benjamin Franklin: A Bicentennial Perspective. (1994) (5)
Poe's “The Business Man”: Its Contexts and Satire of Franklin's Autobiography (1982) (5)
A Bibliographical Guide To The Study Of Southern Literature (1969) (5)
Essays in Early Virginia Literature Honoring Richard Beale Davis (1977) (5)
Age and Performance in Geese (1963) (5)
Printer and publisher, 1730-1747 (2006) (5)
Franklin and Kinnersley (1961) (4)
Prodigals and Pilgrims: The American Revolution against Patriarchal Authority, 1750-1800 (1986) (4)
: A World of Words: Language and Displacement in the Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe. . Michael J. S. Williams. (1989) (4)
The Connections Project (2000) (4)
Franklin and the Autobiography: An Essay on Recent Scholarship (1967) (4)
Hamilton's Literary History of the Maryland Gazette (1966) (3)
A calendar of American poetry in the colonial newspapers and magazines and in the major English magazines through 1765 (1972) (3)
New England's annoyances : America's first folk song (1987) (3)
John Greenleaf Whittier: A Biography. (1987) (3)
The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 3: Soldier, Scientist, and Politician, 1748-1757 (2008) (3)
The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 2 (2013) (2)
WOOD, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin (2006) (2)
Deborah Franklin, lord loudoun, and Franklin's autobiography (2004) (2)
The American Aesthetic of Franklin's Visual Creations (1987) (2)
The Origins of the Humor of the Old South (1991) (2)
The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 1: Journalist, 1706-1730 (2005) (2)
Pocahontas: The Evolution of an American Narrative (1996) (1)
American colonial prose : John Smith to Thomas Jefferson (1988) (1)
Francis Knapp: A Red Herring in Colonial Poetry (1966) (1)
The Writings of Thomas Hooker: Spiritual Adventure in Two Worlds. (1981) (1)
Joseph Green's Satirical Poem on the Great Awakening (1974) (1)
Sources and Documentation (2006) (1)
Prophetic Waters: The River in Early American Life and Literature. (1978) (1)
Richard Lewis and Augustan American Poetry (1968) (1)
Deism, Masonry and the Enlightenment: Essays Honoring Alfred Owen Aldridge (1990) (1)
CSI for the First Responder: A Concise Guide (2010) (1)
Journalist, 1706-1730 (2006) (0)
18. The French and Indians Attack and Pennsylvania Responds, 1755 (2009) (0)
Two. Child to Adolescent (2006) (0)
Five. Man of Letters (2006) (0)
I. Introduction: Franklin's Accounts through 1747 (2006) (0)
Book Review: Benjamin Franklin: A Reference Guide, 1907-1983, by J.A. Leo Lemay (1989) (0)
6. Colonial Union, Dumping Felons in America, and Assemblyman, 1751 (2009) (0)
Twenty. Assessing Franklin, Age 30 through 41 (2006) (0)
Crime Scene Documentation (2010) (0)
Eleven. The Water American: London Escapades (2006) (0)
A GREAT COMMONER (1980) (0)
Edgar Allan Poe. . Bettina L. Knapp. (1986) (0)
Appendix 4. Sample Wages and Prices in Colonial Philadelphia (2006) (0)
Appendix 3. Pennsylvania Assembly: Pay to Franklin (2006) (0)
A Colonial Southern Bookshelf: Reading in the Eighteenth Century. (1980) (0)
II. The Early Scientific Career of Ebenezer Kinnersley (1964) (0)
V. Name Index (with some biographical notes) (2006) (0)
Thirteen. Merchant to Master Printer, 1726–1728 (2006) (0)
10. Insurance: The Philadelphia Contributionship (2009) (0)
Eight. Poor Richard’s Proverbs (2006) (0)
Twelve. Personal Life (2006) (0)
Appendix 2. Franklin’s Organizations: Dates and Locations of Meetings, 1727–1747 (2006) (0)
21. The Easton Treaty and Assembly Sessions, 1756–1757 (2009) (0)
Death Scene Investigation (2010) (0)
I. The Religious Career of Ebenezer Kinnersley (1964) (0)
Nineteen. Assessing Franklin, Age Seventeen to Twenty-four (2006) (0)
One. Personal and Business Life (2006) (0)
11. Paper Currency, the Coming of War, and a Trip to New England, 1752–1753 (2009) (0)
IV. Accounts, 1740 Through 1747 (2006) (0)
Sixteen. The Busy-Body (2006) (0)
Sixteen. Concerned Citizen (2006) (0)
Fifteen. Business, 1728–1730, and ‘‘Articles of Religion’’ (2006) (0)
Appendix III. Kinnersley’s Will (1964) (0)
Soldier, Scientist, and Politician, 1748-1757 (2009) (0)
Five. Nathaniel Gardner and the Couranteers (2006) (0)
Jonson and Milton: Two Influences in Oakes's Elegie (1965) (0)
Fifteen. Earning a Living: Printer, Publisher, Merchant, Bookseller, and Postmaster (2006) (0)
Ten. The Hemphill Controversy (2006) (0)
3. Astronomy, Weather, and the Northwest Passage: Natural Philosopher, 1748–1757 (2009) (0)
Eleven. Assessing Franklin as a Young Man, Age 24 to 30 (2006) (0)
Four. The Library Company of Philadelphia (2006) (0)
5. The Academy And College of Philadelphia (2009) (0)
19. General Franklin on the Frontier, 1755–1756 (2009) (0)
Book Review: Reply to J. Frederick Fausz's review of The American Dream of Captain John Smith (1993) (0)
15. Boston, America and the Empire, and Katy Ray, 1754–1755 (2009) (0)
Appendix I. The Right of Private Judgment (1964) (0)
Twelve. At Sea, 1726 (2006) (0)
Nine. Assessing Franklin as a Youth, to Age Seventeen (2006) (0)
Silence Dogood, the Busy-Body, and early writings : Boston and London, 1722-1726, Philadelphia, 1726-1757, London, 1757-1775 (2002) (0)
Courtroom Presentation and Testimony (2017) (0)
Fourteen. The Junto (2006) (0)
16. Libels on the Assembly, Quincy’S Mission, and General Braddock, 1755 (2009) (0)
Book Review: Sweet Instruction: Franklin's Journalism as a Literary Apprenticeship, by James A. Sappenfield (1974) (0)
Book Review: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin. Volume 32: March 1 through June 30, 1780, edited by Barbara B. Oberg, Ellen R. Cohn, Jonathan R. Dull, Karen Duval, Leslie J. Lindenauer, Claude A. Lopez, and Kate M. Ohno (1998) (0)
Six. Politics, Religion, and the Rivalry with Bradford 1732 (2006) (0)
Sources, Documentation, Dates (2006) (0)
Eight. ‘‘Saucy and Provoking’’: Franklin Takes Charge (2006) (0)
Nineteen. Satires and Other Writings 1736–1747 (2006) (0)
Benjamin Franklin’s Vision of American Community: A Study in Rhetorical Iconology. By LESTER C. OLSON. and The Papers of Benjamin Franklin. Vol. 37, March 16 through August 15, 1782. Edited by ELLEN R. COHN (2006) (0)
23. Assessing Franklin, Age 42 through 51 (2009) (0)
Book Review:The Selected Papers of Charles Willson Peale and His Family. Vol. 1, Charles Willson Peale: Artist in Revolutionary America, 1735-1791 Lillian B. Miller, Sidney Hart, Toby A. Appel, Charles Willson Peale (1985) (0)
4. Clerk, Councilman, And Magistrate, 1748–1751 (2009) (0)
12. The Carlisle Treaty, Postmaster General, a Trip to New England, and Assembly Sessions, 1753–1754 (2009) (0)
Appendix II. Kinnersley’s Advertisements in the Pennsylvania Gazette (1964) (0)
Stanley Finger. Doctor Franklin's Medicine. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. xiii + 379 pp. $39.95 (cloth). ISBN‐10: 0‐8122‐3913‐X. (2007) (0)
Benjamin Franklin's First Government Printing: The Pennsylvania General Loan Office Mortgage Register of 1729, and Subsequent Mortgage Registers and Bonds. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 89, pt. 5. Keith Arbour (2000) (0)
7. The Fundamental Document of the American Revolution, 1751 (2009) (0)
Thirteen. The Assembly Clerk and Pennsylvania Politics (2006) (0)
Recent Franklin Scholarship, with a Note on Franklin's Sedan Chair (2002) (0)
Eighteen. Natural Philosophy (2006) (0)
Crime Scene Approach (2017) (0)
Two. The Art of Virtue (2006) (0)
The Flowering of the Chesapeake@@@Literature and Society in Early Virginia: 1608-1840.@@@Men of Letters in Colonial Maryland. (1973) (0)
14. Assembly Sessions, the Snake Cartoon, and the Albany Conference, 1754 (2009) (0)
Three. Printer’s Devil (2006) (0)
Seven. Silence Dogood in Context (2006) (0)
8. The Pennsylvania Hospital (2009) (0)
20. Rival Militias, Colonel Franklin, Virginia, New York, and Frontier Fighting, 1756 (2009) (0)
Four. Massachusetts Controversies, 1716–1723 (2006) (0)
The Tall Tales of a Colonial Frontiersman (1981) (0)
22. Franklin in New York and at Sea, 1757 (2009) (0)
Seventeen. George Whitefield and the Great Awakening (2006) (0)
17. Assembly Crises, Crown Point, Parables, and Glimpses of Deborah, 1755 (2009) (0)
Book Review: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin. Volume 22, March 23, 1775, through October 27, 1776, Edited by William B. Willcox, et al. (1983) (0)
1. The Association, 1747–1748 (2009) (0)
Appendix 1. New Attributions (2006) (0)
Book Review: Benjamin Franklin and His Enemies, by Robert Middlekauff (1996) (0)
Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers@@@Ebenezer Kinnersley: Franklin's Friend (1965) (0)
Appendix IV. A Partial Inventory (1964) (0)
An Attribution of "Reflections on Courtship and Marriage" (1746) to Benjamin Franklin (2001) (0)
Randall's Revenge: A Review-Essay (1985) (0)
Nine. Franklin and Politics 1730–1736 (2006) (0)
Six. James Franklin: America’s First Newspaperman (2006) (0)
Book Review: The American Musical Stage Before 1800, by Julian Mates. (1962) (0)
Seventeen. Paper Currency (2006) (0)
13. The Pennsylvania Germans (2009) (0)
Roswell, New Mexico (2008) (0)
9. Franklin’S First Full Assembly, the Money Bill, and Susanna Wright, 1751–1752 (2009) (0)
Seven. Poor Richard’s Prefaces 1733–1747 (2006) (0)
III. Teacher and Scientist, 1753–1778 (1964) (0)
Exploring Americana (1983) (0)
Ten. The Runaway (2006) (0)
III. Accounts, 1730s (2006) (0)

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