Background
Brooks, Van Wyck was born on February 16, 1886 in Plainfield, New Jersey, United States. Son of Charles Edward and Sarah B. (Ames) Brooks.
(Writings on the New England literary and social scenes; c...)
Writings on the New England literary and social scenes; contents include: Dr. Holmes's Boston; Cambridge After the Civil War; The Post-War Years; The Radical Club; The Younger Generation of 1870; Howells and James; Emily Dickinson; Boston in the Nineties;
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Brooks, Van Wyck was born on February 16, 1886 in Plainfield, New Jersey, United States. Son of Charles Edward and Sarah B. (Ames) Brooks.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1908, Doctor of Letters. Doctor of Letters, Columbia, Tufts, Bowdoin, Boston University, Dartmouth College, Northeastern University, University of Pennsylvania, Union College, Fairleigh Dickinson University. Doctor of Humane Letters, Northwestern University.
Instructor English, Stanford, 1911-1913. With Century Company, publications, New York, 1915-1918. Associate editor The Freeman, 1920-1924.
(Writings on the New England literary and social scenes; c...)
(An account of the American literary scene from 1885 - 1915.)
(This Address Was Delivered At The Inauguration Of Dr. Geo...)
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Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences, Royal Society of Literature (London). Member American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Philosophical Society, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married to Eleanor Kenyon Stimson, 1911 (died 1946). Married second, Gladys Rice. Children: Charles Van Wyck, Oliver Kenyon.