Wheelock, John Hall, 1886-1978

Jack Wheelock was a close friend to Van Wyck Brooks at Harvard, and remained close to both Brookses afterwards.

John Hall Wheelock was an accomplished poet and influential editor at Scribner's for many years. Born on Long Island, he learned a love of poetry from his mother, which continued during his studies at Harvard and the University of Göttingen. Harvard friend Maxwell Perkins got him a job at Scribner's, and he became an innovative and influential editor, working with writers like Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Allen Tate; his contributions to poetry as editor are particularly noteworthy. Wheelock's own output of creative writing was limited, but his verse, steeped in traditional forms and values, was successful and admired, and he was an important figure in 20th-century American poetry.

Wheelock was one of Van Wyck Brooks's oldest and closest friends from their time together at Harvard onwards.

John Hall Wheelock, author and editor, was born in Rockaway, Long Island. He attended Harvard and studied in Germany following his graduation. After his return to the U.S. he was employed by Scribner's where he worked with numerous authors including Thomas Wolfe and James Truslow Adams. He subsequently served as a director, treasurer, and senior editor for the publishing house. Over the course of his life he continued writing, winning numerous awards for his poetry and favorable reviews for his other works.

American poet.

Author, poet, and editor at Charles Scribner's Sons.

Poet and editor.

Author, poet.

American author and poet; held various positions at Charles Scribner's Sons publishing firm, including editor and director.

John Hall Wheelock was an award winning poet, author, and editor for Scribners. Pauline Frances Stephens was an American novelist and poet.

John Hall Wheelock was an American poet and editor. His verse combined a traditional, formal structure with a singular exuberance, and his gentle clarity earned him the praise and respect of his colleagues. He had a longtime affiliation with Scribners, notably as senior editor, and was responsible for introducing or developing numerous significant authors. His innovative Poets of Today series was successful and popular.

Poet and editor.

The author of thirteen books of poetry, John Hall Wheelock began writing verse while a student at Harvard. From 1911 to 1957, he was an editor at Charles Scribner's Sons.

Biographical Note

The John Hall Wheelock Collections consists of several sub-collections, each contributed by a different creator. Biographies, when available, are included below:

John Hall Wheelock was the author of several books, including Verses by Two Undergraduates (with Van Wyck Brooks; 1905), The Human Fantasy (1911), The Beloved Adventure (1912), Love and Liberation: The Songs of Adsched to Meru, and Other Poems (1913), Dust and Light (1919), A Bibliography of Theodore Roosevelt (1920), The Black Panther: A Book of Poems (1922), The Bright Doom: A Book of Poems (1927), Poems, 1911-1936 (1936), Poems Old and New (1956), The Gardener, and Other Poems (1961), What Is Poetry? (1963), Dear Men and Women (1966), By Daylight and in Dream: New and Collected Poems, 1904-1970 (1970), In Love and Song: Poems (1971), This Blessed Earth: New and Selected Poems, 1927-1977 (1978), and Afternoon: Amagansett Beach (1978). He was also the editor of The Face of a Nation: Poetical Passages from the Writings of Thomas Wolfe (1939), Editor to Author: The Letters of Maxwell Perkins (1950), and Poets of Today (8 vols., 1954-1961).

Vince Clemente is an American poet, biographer, critic, editor, and professor of English born on April 28, 1932. He has contributed to numerous periodicals and has published several books, including Songs From Puccini (1978), From This Book of Praise (1978), and Broadbill Off Conscience Bay (1982); he is an editor of Paumanok Rising: An Anthology of Eastern Long Island Aesthetics (1981) and John Ciardi: Measure of the Man (1987). He is also the founding editor of Long Pond Review, West Hills Review: A Walt Whitman Journal, and John Hall Wheelock Review .

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Carolyn Tyson was a poet and painter from New York, N.Y.

Helen S. Belknap was a cousin of John Hall Wheelock.

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Michel Farano was an American poet, book reviewer, and editor.

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