Background
Woollcott was born in Phalanx on January 19, 1887. His father failed to provide for his family, and during his adolescence Woollcott supported himself by writing book reviews and performing odd jobs for a local newspaper.
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This early work by Beatrice Kaufman and Joseph Hennessey was originally published in the early 20th century and we are now republishing it. 'The Letters of Alexander Woollcott' is a collection of letters by a famous American critic and commentator for the New Yorker.
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(Long, Long Ago is a collection of short novels and long s...)
Long, Long Ago is a collection of short novels and long stories by various authors who Alexander Woollcott thought were under-appreciated or under-known. He provides a short commentary after each piece.
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(This early work by Alexander Woollcott was originally pub...)
This early work by Alexander Woollcott was originally published in 1925 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Story of Irving Berlin' is the first biography of this great American composer, published when Berlin was only 36. Alexander Humphreys Woollcott was born on the 19th January, 1887 in New Jersey, America and was a critic and commentator for The New Yorker magazine. One of New York's most prolific drama critics, Woollcott was an owlish character whose caustic wit either joyously attracted or vehemently repelled the artistic communities of 1920s Manhattan.
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Woollcott was born in Phalanx on January 19, 1887. His father failed to provide for his family, and during his adolescence Woollcott supported himself by writing book reviews and performing odd jobs for a local newspaper.
He attended Hamilton College, in Clinton, N. Y. , graduating Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelor of philosophy degree in 1909.
Following graduation he joined the staff of the New York Times, becoming drama critic in 1914. He retained this post until 1922, with the exception of a year spent as a reporter for The Stars and Stripes during World War I.
Woollcott served as drama critic for the New York Herald from 1922 to 1925 and for the New York World from 1925 to 1928. In 1929 he began lecturing throughout the United States; at the same time, he initiated his radio programs, "The Early Bookworm" and "The Town Crier, " which remained on the air intermittently until 1942.
His critical comments on the passing scene were highly popular, and he became one of the country's most influential book reviewers.
During the 1920's Woollcott was a member of the select "Thanatopsis Literary and Inside Straight Club. " This group, which met regularly at the Algonquin Hotel, included such celebrities as Dorothy Parker, Robert E. Sherwood, George S. Kaufman, and the Marx brothers. Woollcott's anthologies contain many amusing anecdotes about these friends, along with many of his previously published articles and stories. These books include Shouts and Murmurs (1922); Enchanted Aisles (1924); The Story of Irving Berlin (1925); While Rome Burned (1934); The Woollcott Reader (1935); Woollcott's Second Reader (1937); As You Were (1943); and Long, Long Ago (1943).
Woollcott also contributed articles to magazines and was co-author (with George S. Kaufman) of two unsuccessful plays, The Channel Road (1929) and The Dark Tower (1933). He acted in two dramas by S. N. Behrman, Brief Moment and Wine of Choice. Kaufman's and Moss Hart's The Man Who Came to Dinner, however, provided him with his most famous role, that of Sheridan Whiteside, a character freely admitted to be "an unexpurgated version of Alexander Woollcott. "
(Long, Long Ago is a collection of short novels and long s...)
(This early work by Alexander Woollcott was originally pub...)
(This early work by Beatrice Kaufman and Joseph Hennessey ...)
"Thanatopsis Literary and Inside Straight Club. "