Background
Bridges, Robert was born on July 13, 1858 in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John and Mary Bridges.
Bridges, Robert was born on July 13, 1858 in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John and Mary Bridges.
Bachelor of Arts, Princeton, 1879, Master of Arts, 1882, Doctor of Letters, 1919. Honorary Doctor of Letters, Columbia, 1924. Reporter Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 1880.
Assistant news editor New York Evening Post, 1881-1887.
Assistant editor Scribner’s Magazine, 1887-1914, editor same, 1914-1930. Literature adviser, director Charles Scribner’s Sons to 1939.
Literature critic, Life, 1883-1900.
Assistant news editor New York Evening Post, 1881-1887. Assistant editor Scribner’s Magazine, 1887-1914, editor same, 1914-1930.
Member National Institute Arts and Letters.