Edmund Wilson - Wikipedia
WebEdmund Wilson Jr. (May 8, 1895 – June 12, 1972) was an American writer, literary critic and journalist. He is widely regarded as one of the most important literary critics of the 20th century. Wilson began his career as a journalist, writing for publications such as Vanity Fair and The New Yorker.
Edmund Wilson | American Literary Critic & Historian | Britannica
WebApr 16, 2024 · Symbolism. literature. novel. poetry. Edmund Wilson (born May 8, 1895, Red Bank, New Jersey, U.S.—died June 12, 1972, Talcottville, New York) was an American critic and essayist recognized as one of the leading literary journalists of his time. Educated at Princeton, Wilson moved from newspaper reporting in New York to become managing …
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WebThe novel, the premiere art form of western civilization over the last two hundred years, has ceased to be the mark of civilization. And so what need have we of Edmund Wilson—that fat, ferocious man, so nimble on his feet? Born in New Jersey in 1895, Wilson was a product of as elite an education as the nation offered at the time.
Edmund Wilson: His Life and Books - The Atlantic
WebEdmund Wilson, Sr., was a passionate admirer of Lincoln the lawyer (the tragedy of Lincoln runs through several of his son’s books as the tragedy of the superior man in America), and he ...
Edmund Wilson | Encyclopedia.com
WebMay 21, 2018 · Edmund Wilson. 1856-1939. American cytologist who helped discover the existence and nature of sex chromosomes. Wilson's "The Cell in Heredity and Development" (1928) integrated cell structure and function with heredity, adaptation, and evolution, and helped advance Mendelian genetics.
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WebWilson’s omnivorous curiosity and restless ambition made him not only the preeminent critic of his era but a historian, an investigative reporter, a novelist, a memoirist and diarist, chronicling his own life and times while delving ceaselessly into …
Edmund Wilson summary | Britannica
WebEdmund Wilson, (born May 8, 1895, Red Bank, N.J., U.S.—died June 12, 1972, Talcottville, N.Y.), U.S. critic and essayist. He attended Princeton University and initially worked as a reporter and magazine editor.
Edmund Wilson | The New York Review of Books
WebEdmund Wilson (1895-1972) is widely regarded as the preeminent American man of letters of the twentieth century. Over his long career, he wrote for Vanity Fair, helped edit The New Republic, served as chief book critic for The New Yorker, and was a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.
Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature | Library of Congress
WebOne of the early 20th century's most respected men of letters, Wilson (1895-1972) stood at the center of the American cultural scene from the Jazz Age through the McCarthy era. He rose to prominence first as associate editor of The New Republic and later as a book critic at The New Yorker.
Eighty-Five From the Archive: Edmund Wilson | The New Yorker
WebMar 9, 2010 · Wilson was the preëminent literary critic of the nineteen-forties and fifties, and his work influenced the careers of a number of distinguished novelists, including Hemingway, Nabokov, and...
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