Background
Wright, Willard Huntington was born in 1888 in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. Son of Archibald Davenport and Annie (Van Vranken) Wright.
Wright, Willard Huntington was born in 1888 in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. Son of Archibald Davenport and Annie (Van Vranken) Wright.
Educated St. Vincent College, California, 1903. Pomona College, California, 1904. Harvard, 1906.
Editor, Los Angeles Times, 1907-1913. Literature critic, Town Topics, 1910-1914. Dramatic critic, same, 1912-1914.
Editor Smart Set Magazine, 1912-1914. Art critic, The Forum, 1915-1916. Art critic, International Studio, 1916-1917.
Literature editor, New York Evening Mail, 1917. Music critic and art editor, San Francisco Bulletin, 1918-1919. Art critic, Hearst’s International Magazine, 1922-1923.
Police commissioner of Bradley Beach, New Jersey, 1929. Author: Songs of Youth, 1913. Europe After 8:15 (with H. L. Mencken and G. J. Nathan), 1913.
What Nietzsche Taught, 1914. Modern Painting—Its Tendency and Meaning, 1915. The Man of Promise, 1916, de-luxe reprint of same, 1929.
The Creative Will, 1916. The Forum Exhibition of Modern American Painters, 1916. Misinforming a Nation, 1917.
Informing a Nation, 1917. The Great Modern French Stories, 1918. The Future of Painting, 1923.
Modern Literature, 1926. The Great Detective Stories—A Chronological Anthology, 1927. Also under name of S. S. Van Dyne—The Benson Murder Case, 1926.
The “Canary” Murder Case, 1927. The Greene Murder Case. 1928; The Bishop Murder Case, 1929.
The Scarab Murder Case, 1930. The Kennel Murder Case, 1932. The Dragon Murder Case, 1933.
The Casino Murder Case, 1934. The Garden Murder Case, 1935. Philo Vance Murder Cases, 1936.
The Kidnap Murder Case, 1936. The Powwow Murder Case, 1938.
Married Katharine Belle Boynton, July 13, 1907 (divorced 1930). Married second, Eleanor Rulapaugh (Claire de Lisle), 1930.