James Branch Cabell Collection 1918-1954

Thomas Caldecot Chubb was born in East Orange, New Jersey, the son of insurance exective Herndon Chubb and his wife, Alice Lee Chubb. He was educated at St. Paul's School and at Yale College, receiving his BA in 1922. It was at Yale that he achieved his first literary successes. His poetry collection, The White God and Other Poems, was published in the Yale Younger Poets series in 1920, and his poem Kyrdoon was the Yale University Prize Poem in 1921. Although he served i...

Becker, May Lamberton, 1873-1958

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Authority on children's literature, editor, author, and literary critic, Becker was a contributing editor to the book section of the New York Herald Tribune and to Scholastic Magazine. For further biographical information, see American Women, 1935-1936 (1935). From the description of Letter, 1927. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007142 May Lamberton Becker (1873-1958) was a writer of the "Books" column in the New York Herald Tribune. From the descrip...

Garrard Glenn

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Cyril B. Smith

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Edwin Bjorkman

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John Macy

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Ed Snyder

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Bishop, John Peale, 1892-1944

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American author. From the description of Typed letter signed : South Harwich, Mass., to Stark Young, 1934 Sept. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270874880 ...

Jan Van Male

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Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951

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Sinclair Lewis (b. Feb. 7, 1885, Sauk Centre, MN–d. January 10, 1951, Rome, Italy) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. He was the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930. ...

H. B. Matthews

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Beth McCausland

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Robert Bell

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Charles Ridgely

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Shipley, Joseph T. (Joseph Twadell), 1893-1988

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Instructor in English. Shipley was an alumnus of City College, Class of 1912. From the description of Papers, 1917-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155503988 ...

Frances Newman

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Louis Untermeyer

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McBride, Robert Medill, 1879-

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Stanley E. Babb

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Edgar Jepson

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George Keating

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P. A. Carmichael

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Redman, Ben Ray, 1896-1961

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Joseph Hergesheimer

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Virginia MacFadyen

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Benjamin De Casseres

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Goldsmith, Alfred F.

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Alfred Francis Goldsmith was born in Atlantic City, N.J. and studied at the University of Pennsylvania. He opened his shop, At the Sign of the Sparrow, in the Gramercy Park area of New York City in the early 1920s. His primary interests were Lewis Carroll, Edgar Allen Poe, and Walt Whitman. Goldsmith helped Carolyn Wells acquire her major collection of Whitmaniana, which she later left to the Library of Congress. Their descriptive bibliography of Whitman's works appeared in 1922. We...

Isabel Paterson

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Robert M. McBride and Co.

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Harold, Ward

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A. Burton Clarke

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Alice E. Stroud

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Carl Van Doren

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Dorothy Hergesheimer

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Burton Rascoe

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Ernst Carl Wallau

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Hutchings, Emily Grant

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Frank Crowninshield

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Joseph Shipley

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Lewis Galantiere

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Byrne Cobure

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A. L. S. Wood

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Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958

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Richmond author James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) is best known for his controversial book, Jurgen (1919), a fantasy set in Cabell's mythical medieval world of Poictesme (pronounced Pwa-tem). The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice contended the book was obscene. A trial over its content brought the reclusive writer national fame. Throughout the 1920s, Cabell's literary peers, including H.L. Mencken and Sinclair Lewis, praised his works. Cabell was born April 14, 1879, at 101 E. Frank...

Helen Tooker

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Franz Blei

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James Branch Cabell Collection 1918-1954

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