Background
O’Brien, Edward Joseph Harrington was born on December 10, 1890 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of the Morning, 1932. Editor: The World’s History at a Glance, 1913.
O’Brien, Edward Joseph Harrington was born on December 10, 1890 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of the Morning, 1932. Editor: The World’s History at a Glance, 1913.
Boston College, 1906-1908, Harvard, 1908-1909.
1 son, John Bernard; married second, Ruth Gorgel, of Harburg, Germany, October 26, 1932. Children—Ruth Ingeborg, Dorothy Erika. Associate editor The Poetry Journal, 1912-1915, Poet Lore, 1914-1915.
Editor New Stories, 1933-1935 (founder).
Author: (verse) White Fountains, 1917. (verse) Distant Music, 1921.
The Advance of the American Short Story, 1923. Hard Sayings, 1927; The Dance of the Machines, 1929.
Son of the Morning, 1932.
Editor: The World’s History at a Glance, 1913. Walks and Talks About Boston, 1916. Poems of the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood, 1917.
The Best Short Stories (annual), 1915-1940.
Best British Short Stories (annual, first four volumes with John Cournos), 1921-1940. The Masque of Poets, 1918.
The Great Modern English Stories, 1919. Selected Short Stories (by FitzJames O’Brien), 1925.
Modern English Short Stories, 1930.
The Twenty-five Finest Short Stories, 1931. Modern American Short Stories, 1932. New English Short Stories, 1935.
The Guest Book, 1935.
Elizabethan Tales, 1937. The Fifty Best American Short Stories.
1914-1939, 1939. Edited volumes by Synge, Arnold Thompson, Davidson, Lowell and Swinburne.
Translator: The Inferno (by Henri Barbusse). Three War Poems (by Paul Claudel).
Job le Pauvre (by Jean de Bosschère) plays by August Stramm and O. West. Milosz. Etc. European story editor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1937-1939.
Home: London, England.
Married Romer Wilson, of Sheffield, England, July 26, 1923 (died 1930). Married second, Ruth Gorgel, of Harburg, Germany, October 26, 1932. Children: Ruth Ingeborg, Dorothy Erika.