Background
Troy was born in Chicago, grew up in its western suburb Oak Park, Illinois, and attended suburban Loyola Academy for high school.
Troy was born in Chicago, grew up in its western suburb Oak Park, Illinois, and attended suburban Loyola Academy for high school.
Columbia University; Yale University.
He sold his first review to a newspaper while still in high school. After high school he attended Yale University. After graduating from Yale he taught for one year at the University of New Hampshire and then attended graduate school at Columbia University.
He taught at several universities and colleges throughout his life, including New York University, Bennington College, and New School University.
Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Troy was a regular literary and film critic for The Nation and he published essays, reviews, and poems in various journals. He died of cancer of the larynx on May 26, 1961.