Background
Eaton, Walter Prichard was born on August 24, 1878 in Malden, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Warren Everett and Mary (Prichard) Eaton.
Eaton, Walter Prichard was born on August 24, 1878 in Malden, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Warren Everett and Mary (Prichard) Eaton.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1900. A.M., Yale, 1946.
Reporter on Boston Journal, 1900. Dramatic department New York Tribune, 1902-1907. Dramatic critic New York Sun, 1907-1908.
Literature work since 1908. New York theatrical correspondent. Dramatic critic American Magazine, 1909-1918.
Professor playwriting, Yale University, 1933-1947. Visiting lecturer, University of Texas, 1948, University of North Carolina, 1948-1949.
Author: American Stage of Today, 1908. The Runaway Place (with Elise Underhill), 1909. At the New Theatre and Others, 1910.
Boy Scouts of Berkshire, 1912. Boy Scouts in the Dismal Swamp, 1913. Barn Doors and Byways, 1913.
The Man Who Found Christmas, 1913. Boy Scouts in the White Mountains, 1914. The Idyl of Twin Fires, 1915.
New York, 1915
Boy Scouts of the Wild Cat Patrol, 1915. Plays and Players, 1916. The Bird House Man, 1916.
Peanut, Cub Reporter, 1916. Green Trails and Upland Pastures, 1917. Newark, 1917
Boy Scouts in Glacier Park, 1918.
Echoes and Realities (verse), 1918. In Berkshire Fields, 1919. On the Edge of the Wilderness, 1920.
Boy Scouts at Crater Lake, 1922. Penguin Persons and Peppermints, 1922. Queen Victoria (a play with David Carb), 1923.
Boy Scouts on Katahdin, 1924. Skyline Camps, 1924
The Actor’s Heritage, 1924. A Bucolic Attitude, 1926.
Hawkeye’s Room Mate, 1927. Boy Scouts on the Green Mountain Trail, 1929. Ten Years of the Theatre Guild, 1929.
New England Vista. 1930. The Drama in English, 1930. Everybody’s Garden, 1932.
Boy Scouts in the Grand Cañon, 1932. On Yankee Hilltops, 1933. Wild Gardens of New England, 1935.
Boy Scouts in Death Valley, 1938. Lecturer on gardens and dramatic topics.
Member Unitarian Committee of Appraisal, 1934-1935. Member National Institute Arts and Letters. Clubs: Elizabethan (New Haven).
Married Elise Morris Underhill, June 30, 1910.