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Edmund 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.
Jun 8, 2024 · 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.
Edmund Wilson could never begin to create that kind of system. His unique success came from his unique genius. Even he couldn’t teach someone else to do what he did: absorbing books and making intelligent points about them.
One of the nation’s foremost literary critics, Edmund Wilson grew up in New Jersey and studied at Princeton University. He worked as managing editor of Vanity Fair, associate editor of the New Republic, and book reviewer for the New Yorker.
Edmund Wilson has made books out of his intellectual fiction, out of the light verse he sends his friends at Christmas, out of his New Yorker her book reviews, out of his hatred of...
Literary scholar Lewis M. Dabney discussed his new book,"Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005). One 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.
Mar 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...
Edmund Wilson: Literary Reviews and Essays (two volumes) Library of America. CURATOR. A champion of America’s great writers and timeless works, Library of America guides readers in finding and exploring the exceptional writing that reflects the nation’s history and culture. Learn More.
May 21, 2018 · Edmund Wilson. The American critic Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) pursued an independent course that secured him respect and eminence. Edmund Wilson was born in Red Bank, N.J., on May 8, 1895, the son of a railroad lawyer.
Edmund Wilson is the one American critic most widely known and read in Europe. In the United States he is (or rather was) a dominant figure: the man of letters, a general critic of society. Many of his writings, such as The American Jitters (1932), To the.
