Knox Hill, 94, died February 3, 2005, in Chicago. He was born December 15, 1910, in Oak Park, Illinois. An accomplished classical pianist and organist, he earned bachelor's and master's degrees in music from the University of Chicago. During World War II he served in the Army in England, North Africa and Italy, receiving a bronze star. After the war he returned to the university where, in 1954, he completed his Ph.D. in philosophy and joined the faculty. As a professor in the Department of Philosophy, he was instrumental in creating the introductory sequence to the humanities where many students had their first introduction to art, music, literature, and poetry. He was director of Undergraduate Programs in Philosophy, editor of the Journal of General Education, and the university examiner and secretary of the faculties. In 1953 he won the Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. In addition to articles in scholarly journals, he wrote Interpreting Literature:

History, Philosophy, Fiction, Drama, Rhetoric (1966). A member of the Literary Club since 1987, he presented four papers.