biography
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| (1886–1963)
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| biography:
| Literary critic and biographer, born in Plainfield, New Jersey, USA. He studied at Harvard, later emerging as America's most influential cultural and literary critic of the 1930s and 1940s after establishing his reputation with America's Coming of Age (1915) and biographies of Mark Twain, Henry James, and Emerson. He interpreted the American literary tradition for a wide audience in his prizewinning and influential Makers and Finders: A History of the Writer in America (5 vols, 1936–52). |
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