Waldo Ralph Browne

Background

Browne, Waldo Ralph was born on February 2, 1876 in Saint Joseph. Michigan. Son of Francis Fisher and Susan Seaman (Brooks) Browne.

Education

Student in public schools.

Career

Assistant editor The Dial, 1900-1912, editor, 1912-1916. Literature editor The Nation, 1919. Editor and Compiler: Right Reading, 1905.

Joys of the Road, 1911.

The Rolling Earth (naturepassages selected from writings of Walt Whitman). 1912; Books and the Quiet Life (selections from George Gissing), 1914.

Manitoba of the State?, 1919. What’s What in the Labor Movement, 1921.

Century Library of American Antiques, 1926-1934.

Barnum’s Own Story—the autobiography of Philisophy T. Barnum, 1927. Author: Altgeld of Illinois (biography), 1924. Chronicles of an American Home, 1930.

Achievements

• Waldo Ralph Browne has been listed as a noteworthy editor by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member central eitoral staff Federal Writers’ Project, Works Progress Administration, Washington, 1935-1939.

Connections

Married Susanna Avery Shanklin, June 5, 1915.

Father:

Francis Fisher Browne

Mother:

Susan Seaman (Brooks) Browne

Spouse:

Susanna Avery Shanklin