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Full Name: Edmund Wilson
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(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. 
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