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A Short Biography of Edmund Wilson

Author Name:

Edmund Wilson

Born As:

Other Names:

Edmund Wilson

Born:

8 May 1895

Died:

12 Jun 1972




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Writer and critic                          
Selected Works:

Axel's Castle: A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 - 1931
The Triple Thinkers: Ten Essays on Literature - 1938
To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History, Garden City - 1940
The Wound and the Bow: Seven Studies in Literature, Cambridge, MA:  - 1941

The Shock of Recognition: The Development of Literature in the U.S. Recorded by the Men Who Made It, New York, NY - 1943, editor
Volume I. The Nineteenth Century
Volume II. The Twentieth Century

Memoirs of Hecate County, Garden City, NY:  - 1946
The Triple Thinkers: Twelve Essays on Literary Subjects, New York, NY:  - 1948
Classics and Commercials: A Literary Chronicle of the Forties, New York, NY - 1950
The Shores of Light: A Literary Chronicle of the Twenties and Thirties, New York, NY - 1953
The Scrolls from the Dead Sea - 1955
Red, Black, Blond and Olive: Studies in Four Civilizations: Zuni; Hainti; Soviet Russia; Israel, London - 1956
A Piece of My Mind: Reflections at Sixty - 1956

The American Earthquake: A Documentary of the Twenties and Thirties (A Documentary of the Jazz Age, the Great Depression, and the New Deal), Garden City, NY - 1958
Apologies to the Iroquois, New York, NY - 1960

Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War, New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1962. Title "Patriotic Gore" was taken from the song "Maryland, My Maryland".

The Cold War and the Income Tax: A protest, New York, NY - 1964
The Bit Between My Teeth: A Literary Chronicle of 1950-1965, New York, NY - 1966
Europe without Baedeker: Sketches among the Ruins of Italy, Greece and England, with Notes from a European Diary: 1963-64: Paris, Rome, Budapest, London - 1967.                          
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Father Edmund Wilson, Sr.