Robert Newton Linscott

Background

Linscott, Robert Newton was born on May 1, 1886 in Woburn, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Andrew R. and Mary (Ryder) Linscott.

Education

Student in public schools.

Career

; married second, Elisabeth Shoemaker, May 30, 1955. With Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1904-1944, advertising manager, 1920-1940, editor, 1940-1944. Editor Random House, New York City, 1944-1957.

Editor: Guide to Good Reading, 1912. Boys Book of Battles, 1918. The Stories of Tchekov, 1932.

Comic Relief, 1932; The Best American Humorous Short Stories, 1945. The Best Short Stories of Bret Harte, 1947. Bedside Book of Famous French Stories (with Belle Becker), 1945.

The World’s Great Thinkers (with Saxe Commins), 4 vols. 1947; A State of Mind, 1948. Why You Do What You Do (with Jess Stein), 1956.

Also The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, 1957. Vasari’s Lives of Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, 1959. The Poems and Letters of Emily Dickinson, 1959.

The Poems and Letters of Michelangelo (with Creighton Gilbert), 1963. Home: Briar Hill Road, Williamsburg, Massachusetts Ret.

Connections

Married Helen R. Lathrop, June 6, 1908 (deceased.; married second, Elisabeth Shoemaker, May 30, 1955.

Father:

Andrew R. Linscott

Mother:

Mary (Ryder) Linscott

Spouse:

Helen R. Lathrop

Spouse:

Elisabeth Shoemaker