Person Detail: Van Wyck Brooks

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General Information:
Full Name: Van Wyck Brooks
Biography: (1886-1963) Critic, literary scholar. Van Wyck Brooks was born in Plainfield, New Jersey; lived on West 23rd Street in the early 1900s; he also lived at 350 East 57th Street. He graduated from Harvard in 1907, and joined the editorial staff of Doubleday, Page, and Company immediately after receiving his degree. He was an editor with the Century Company (1915-1918), associate editor of The Freeman (1920-24), co-edited, with Alfred Kreymborg, Lewis Mumford, and Paul Rosenfeld, the first annual installment of "American Caravan" (1927).
Author's Timeline:
1886		(Unknown) County Van Wyck Brooks was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, in 1886.
1900		New York County Brooks lived on West 23rd Street in Manhattan, New York, in the early 1900s; he also lived at 350 East 57th Street in Manhattan, New York.
1963		(Unknown) County Van Wyck Brooks died in Bridgewater, Connecticut, in 1963.
1905		(Unknown) County Verses of Two Undergraduates Collection of poetry written with John Hall Wheelock.
1909		(Unknown) County The Wine of the Puritans Nonfiction.
1913		(Unknown) County The Malady of the Ideal
1915		(Unknown) County America's Coming-of-Age
1920		(Unknown) County The Ordeal of Mark Twain
1925		(Unknown) County The Pilgrimage of Henry James
1936		(Unknown) County The Flowering of New England, 1815 - 1865 Literary history, winner of the 1937 Pulitzer Prize in history.
1940		(Unknown) County New England: Indian Summer, 1865 - 1915 History.
1944		(Unknown) County The World of Washington Irving History.
1947		(Unknown) County The Times of Melville and Whitman Literary history.
1952		(Unknown) County The Confident Years: 1885 – 1915 Literary history.
1963		(Unknown) County Van Wyck Brooks was interred in Center Cemetery, Bridgewater, Litchfield County, Connecticut.