Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962

African American poet, critic, and editor; b. William Stanley Beaumont Braithwaite.

Braithwaite was an African-American poet, literary critic, and editor. He wrote reviews and criticism for the Boston Evening Transcript . From 1913 to 1929 he edited an annual Anthology of Magazine Verse. In the 1920s he was president of B.J. Brimmer Company, a Boston publishing firm.

Braithwaite was an African American poet, literary critic, and editor. He wrote reviews and criticism for the Boston Evening Transcript. From 1913 to 1929 he edited an annual Anthology of Magazine Verse. In the 1920's he was president of B. J. Brimmer Company, a Boston publishing firm.

William Stanley Braithwaite of Arlington Heights, Mass., was a poet and the editor of the annual Anthology of Magazine Verse. He also taught at Atlanta University.

Editor and poet.

William Stanley Braithwaite of Arlington Heights, Mass., was a poet and the editor of the annual "Anthology of Magazine Verse." He also taught at Atlanta University.

African-American poet, critic and anthologist; professor of creative literature at Atlanta University; recipient of the Spingarn medal.

Author.

William Stanley Braithwaite was born in Boston, December 6, 1878, to William Smith Braithwaite and Emma DeWolf. He led a difficult life as a child of two mixed race parents and due to the death of his father in 1886, he left school early and joined the workforce at the age of twelve. His first employment was fortuitous; he was apprenticed in a Boston publishing house where he was exposed to the works of John Keats. Braithwaite acquired a passion for romantic poetry which drew him to a literary life. In 1903 he married Emma Kelly with whom he had seven children. Following his marriage, he committed himself even more intensely to his literary career, and completed and published his first volume of poetry, Lyrics of Life and Love (1904). He traveled to New York City in search of a career in journalism, but encountered an unfamiliar atmosphere of racial prejudice and soon returned to Boston where he found employment in 1906 as a critic and reviewer for The Boston Evening Transcript . While at The Transcript he published his first anthologies as collections of the year’s best poetry. In 1908 he completed his best-known work of poetry, The House of Falling Leaves, in which he explored the development of African-American writing in the U.S. He attempted to start up his own literary publication, The Poetic Journal and a publishing house, B.J. Brimmer, which he founded with fellow poet Winifred Virginia Jackson. Both ventures proved unsuccessful and Braithwaite was beset with financial difficulties. In 1935, after having received several honorary degrees he was offered a professorship at Atlanta University which he held until 1945. Braithwaite returned to New York City and completed his final collection of poems, Selected Poems, in 1948 and remained there until his death on June 8, 1962.

American editor and poet.

American poet and anthologizer.

William Stanley Beaumont Braithwaite (1878-1962) was a writer, publisher, editor, and anthologist.

William Stanley Braithwaite was a self-educated African-American author, publisher, educator and anthologist, worked as a literary critic for the Boston Evening Transcript from 1906 to 1931, and published two volumes of poetry, Lyrics of Love and Life (1904) and The House of Falling Leaves (1908), as well as occasional essays and verses in the Atlantic Monthly, Scribner's and the North American Review. Braithwaite was best known, however, for the annual anthologies he edited from 1913 to 1939 (19 volumes), his anthologies of British verse published in 1906, 1908, 1909 and 1919, his anthologies of Catholic and wartime verse, and his Anthology of Magazine Verses for 1958 compiled with Margaret Carpenter. His Selected Poems appeared in 1948, and a biography of the Bronte family (The Bewitched Parsonage) two years later. Braithwaite founded and headed a publishing firm, B.J. Brimmer, in the 1920s, which published works by Lucius Beebe, Georgia Douglas Johnson and the early novels of James Gould Cozzens.

Braithwaite met Emma Kelly in 1902, while working in New Hampshire. They married the following year. Three daughters and four sons were born to this union: Fiona Lydia Rossetti (Mrs. Merrill Carter), Katherine Keats (Mrs. William Arnold), William Stanley Beaumont, Jr., Edith (Mrs. Carman Agard), Paul Ledoux, Arnold DeWolfe and Francis Robinson. Braithwaite was awarded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's Arthur B. Spingarn Award for outstanding achievement in the field of literature in 1918. He accepted a professorship in creative literature at Atlanta University in 1935, and remained in this post until his retirement in 1945. William Stanley Braithwaite died at his home in Harlem on June 8, 1962.

William Stanley Braithwaite was a self-educated African-American author, publisher, educator and anthologist. He worked as a literary critic for the Boston Evening Transcript from 1906 to 1931, and published two volumes of poetry, Lyrics of Love and Life (1904) and The House of Falling Leaves (1908), as well as occasional essays and verses in the Atlantic Monthly, Scribner's and the North American Review. Braithwaite was best known, however, for the annual anthologies he edited from 1913 to 1939 (19 volumes), his anthologies of British verse published in 1906, 1908, 1909 and 1919, his anthologies of Catholic and wartime verse, and his Anthology of Magazine Verses for 1958 compiled with Margaret Carpenter. His Selected Poems appeared in 1948, and a biography of the Bronte family (The Bewitched Parsonage) two years later. Braithwaite founded and headed a publishing firm, B.J. Brimmer, in the 1920s, which published works by Lucius Beebe, Georgia Douglas Johnson and the early novels of James Gould Cozzens.

Braithwaite met Emma Kelly in 1902, while working in New Hampshire. They married the following year. Three daughters and four sons were born to this union: Fiona Lydia Rossetti (Mrs. Merrill Carter), Katherine Keats (Mrs. William Arnold), William Stanley Beaumont, Jr., Edith (Mrs. Carman Agard), Paul Ledoux, Arnold DeWolfe and Francis Robinson. Braithwaite was awarded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's Arthur B. Spingarn Award for outstanding achievement in the field of literature in 1918. He accepted a professorship in creative literature at Atlanta University in 1935, and remained in this post until his retirement in 1945. William Stanley Braithwaite died at his home in Harlem on June 8, 1962.

William Stanley Braithwaite (1878-1962) was an African-American poet, literary critic, editor, and anthologist. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he was for the most part educated at home, but his love of literature led him to his first job as an apprentice at the publishing firm of Ginn & Company. Over the course of his career he wrote numerous books of poetry and literary criticism, including Lyrics of Life and Love (1904), The House of Falling Leaves (1908), The Poetry of Thomas S. Jones Jr. (1910), The Story of the Great War (1919), Our Essayists and Critics of Today (1920), The Grecian Influence of John Myers O'Hara (1926), Frost on the Green Leaf (1928), and The Bewitched Parsonage: The Story of the Brontes (1950). Anthologies edited by Braithwaite include The Poetic Year for 1916 (1916), Golden Treasury of Magazine Verse (1918), The Book of Modern British Verse, Victory: Contributed by 38 American Poets, and Anthology of Massachusetts Poets (1922).

He served as literary editor of the Boston Evening Transcript, editor of The Poetry Journal in Boston, Massachusetts, executive editor for B. J. Brimmer Publishing Company, and editor of the annual Anthology of Magazine Verse and Year Book of American Poetry, published from 1913 to 1939. He was also Professor of Literature at Atlanta University for nearly ten years.

In 1918 Braithwaite received Honorary Masters degrees from Atlanta University and Talladega College, and the same year the NAACP awarded him its Spingarn Medal.