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(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).
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Van Wyck Brooks
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