Background
Shuman, Edwin Llewellyn was born on December 13, 1863 in Lancaster Company, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of William C. and Rebecca (Fertig) Shuman.
Shuman, Edwin Llewellyn was born on December 13, 1863 in Lancaster Company, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of William C. and Rebecca (Fertig) Shuman.
Bachelor of Philosophy, Northwestern University, 1887, the Master of Philisophy from same university, 1890.
Editor Evanston Press, 1889-1890. Traveled in Alaska, 1891. Reporter and editor on Chicago Journal, 1892-1895.
Literature editor and editorial writer Chicago Tribune, 1895-1901.
Literature editor Chicago Record-Herald, 1901-1913. Assistant general manager Associated Sunday Magazines, New York, 1915.
Managing editor Current History Magazine of New York Times, 1916-1922. Associate editor International Book Review, 1922-1926.
Staff editor of Literary Digest, 1926-1933.
Editor of The Homiletic Review, 1933. Book editor Funk & Wagnalls Company Author: Steps Into Journalism, 1894. Practical Journalism, 1903.
How to Judge a Book, 1910.
Editor: A Decade of Oratory, 1888. Translator: Trail Blazers of Science (from German), 1936.
Home: Yonkers, New New York
Married Emma Thompson, December 25, 1895 (died 1937).