The odd couple: Richard Hartshorne and William Bunge: The odd couple

This article reviews the tempestuous seventeen-year long correspondence between two well- known American twentieth-century human geographers, Richard Hartshorne (1899-1992) and William Bunge (1928-2013). Using Ervin Goffman's (1959) dramaturgical framework, the article suggests that their correspondence affords an opportunity to supplement standard "front stage" histories of the discipline with a warts-and-all "back stage" version.