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(1895-1972) Editor, critic, author. Edmund Wilson was born in Red Bank, New Jersey. He is considered one of the most important American literary and social critics of the 20th century. He was managing editor of “Vanity Fair” (1920-21), also on the staffs of the “New Republic” (1926-31) and the “New Yorker” (1944-48). He summered in Talcottville, New York, and died there in 1972.

Full Name

Edmund Wilson

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


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Rented an apartment at 144th Street and Mott Avenue, Kingsbridge


While recovering from the commercial failure of his first novel, "Sister Carrie" (1900), Dreiser, along with his wife Jug in 1903, rented an apartment at 144th Street and Mott Avenue, Kingsbridge, and worked in Spuyten Duyvil.

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RESIDENCE

Lived in New York City

1895

BIRTH

Edmund Wilson was born in Red Bank, New Jersey, in 1895.

1909

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Rented an apartment in Staten Island


In 1909, when Dreiser was thirty-eight, he and his wife rented an apartment at 109 St. Mark's Place, New Brighton.

1929

LITWORK

I Thought Of Daisy


Novel.

1931

LITWORK

Axel's Castle: A Study In Imaginative Literature Of 1870-1930
New York, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

Collection of essays.

1932

LITWORK

The American Jitters: A Year Of The Slump


Collection of articles.

1940

LITWORK

To the Finland Station
Garden City, New York: Doubleday.

Nonfiction.

1941

LITWORK

The Wound And The Bow: Seven Studies In Literature
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Riverside Press.

Collection of critical essays.

1946

LITWORK

Memoirs Of Hecate County
Garden City, New York: Doubleday.

Collection of stories.

1948

LITWORK

The Triple Thinkers: Twelve Essays On Literary Subjects
New York, New York: Farrar, Straus and Company.

Collection of essays.

1954

LITWORK

Five Plays


Plays.

1962

LITWORK

Patriotic Gore: Studies In The Literature Of The American Civil War
New York, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Collection of essays.

1971

LITWORK

Upstate: Records and Recollections of Northern New York


Nonfiction.

1972

DEATH

Edmund Wilson died in Talcottville, New York, in 1972.

1972

INTERMENT

Edmund Wilson was interred in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Wellfleet, Barnstable County, Massachusetts.

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