Van Wyck Brooks
1886 - 1963
General Information
Bio
(1886-1963) Critic, literary scholar. Van Wyck Brooks was born in Plainfield, New Jersey; lived on West 23rd Street in the early 1900s; he also lived at 350 East 57th Street. He graduated from Harvard in 1907, and joined the editorial staff of Doubleday, Page, and Company immediately after receiving his degree. He was an editor with the Century Company (1915-1918), associate editor of The Freeman (1920-24), co-edited, with Alfred Kreymborg, Lewis Mumford, and Paul Rosenfeld, the first annual installment of “American Caravan” (1927).
Full Name
Van Wyck Brooks
Locations
New York
Author's Timeline
1886
BIRTH
1900
RESIDENCE
1905
LITWORK
Collection of poetry written with John Hall Wheelock.
1909
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Nonfiction.
1913
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1915
LITWORK
1920
LITWORK
1925
LITWORK
1936
LITWORK
Literary history, winner of the 1937 Pulitzer Prize in history.
1940
LITWORK
History.
1944
LITWORK
History.
1947
LITWORK
Literary history.
1952
LITWORK
Literary history.
1963
DEATH
1963
INTERMENT
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