Background
Munson, Gorham B. was born on May 26, 1896 in Amityville, New York, United States. Son of Review Hubert Barney and Carrie Louise (Morrow) Munson.
Munson, Gorham B. was born on May 26, 1896 in Amityville, New York, United States. Son of Review Hubert Barney and Carrie Louise (Morrow) Munson.
Bachelor of Arts, Wesleyan University, Connecticut, 1917. Studied and traveled in Europe, 1921-1922.
Dancer), April 2, 1921. Teacher English, Ridgefield (Connecticut) School, 1917-1918, 1920-1921, Riverdale Country School, New York City, 1918-1919. Free lance journalist until 1924.
Editor Secession Magazine, 1922-1924. Managing editor Psychology Magazine, 1924-1926. Managing editor Grant Publs., 1926-1928.
Editorial adviser Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1928-1930, Thos. Y. Crowell Company, 1934-1937. Lecturer New School for Social Research from 1927.
Member administrative staff Work Projects Administration Washington, 1939-1941. Associate editor Greystone Press, New York City, 1941-1942. Editor Robert M. McBride Company, 1943, Prentice-Hall, 1944-1948, Hermitage House, 1951-1955, Thomas Nelson and Sons, New York City, 1955-1960.
Assistant Professor of English, Fairleigh-Dickinson U., 1961-1966. Professor University of California at Davis, 1966-1967. Fellow Center for Advanced Studies, Wesleyan University, Connecticut, 1967-1968.
Distinguished professor American literature U. Hartford, 1968-1969.
Author: Waldo Frank—A Study, 1923. Robert Frost—A Study in Sensibility and Good Sense, 1927. Destinations—A Canvass of American Literature since 1900, 1928.
Style and Form in American Prose, 1929. The Dilemma of the Liberated, 1930. Twelve Decisive Battles of the Mind, 1942.
Aladdin’s Lamp, 1945. The Written Word, 1949. The Writer’s Workshop Companion, 1951.
Penobscot: Down East Paradise, 1959. Robert Frost: Making Poems for America, 1962. Biography of Walt Whitman, public posthumously, 1970.
Editor: Best Advice on How to Write, 1952. Collaborator: Humanism and America, 1930. Behold AmericaEditor of New Democracy, 1933-1939.
Editorial consultant Parapsychology Foundation, Inc., 1961-1965. Contributor to publications including Saturday Review, Yale Review, The Atlantic, Kenyon Review, Literature Review, American Literary Scholarship.
Member American Social Credit Movement (general secretary from 1938), Poetry Society American, Delta Kappa Epsilon.; Club: The Players.
Married Elizabeth Delza (professional.