Person Detail: Edmund Wilson

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General Information:
Full Name: Edmund Wilson
Biography: (1895-1972) Editor, critic, author. Edmund Wilson was born in Red Bank, New Jersey. He is considered one of the most important American literary and social critics of the 20th century. He was managing editor of "Vanity Fair" (1920-21), also on the staffs of the "New Republic" (1926-31) and the "New Yorker" (1944-48). He summered in Talcottville, New York, and died there in 1972.
Author's Timeline:
1972		Lewis County Edmund Wilson died in Talcottville, New York, in 1972.
1895		(Unknown) County Edmund Wilson was born in Red Bank, New Jersey, in 1895.
1931		(Unknown) County Axel's Castle: A Study In Imaginative Literature Of 1870-1930 (Pub: New York, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN: ) Collection of essays.
1940		(Unknown) County To the Finland Station (Pub: Garden City, New York: Doubleday. ISBN: ) Nonfiction.
1962		(Unknown) County Patriotic Gore: Studies In The Literature Of The American Civil War (Pub: New York, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN: ) Collection of essays.
1971		(Unknown) County Upstate: Records and Recollections of Northern New York Nonfiction.
1946		(Unknown) County Memoirs Of Hecate County (Pub: Garden City, New York: Doubleday. ISBN: ) Collection of stories.
1929		(Unknown) County I Thought Of Daisy Novel.
1954		(Unknown) County Five Plays Plays.
1932		(Unknown) County The American Jitters: A Year Of The Slump Collection of articles.
1948		(Unknown) County The Triple Thinkers: Twelve Essays On Literary Subjects (Pub: New York, New York: Farrar, Straus and Company. ISBN: ) Collection of essays.
1941		(Unknown) County The Wound And The Bow: Seven Studies In Literature (Pub: Cambridge, Massachusetts: Riverside Press. ISBN: ) Collection of critical essays.
1972		(Unknown) County Edmund Wilson was interred in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Wellfleet, Barnstable County, Massachusetts.