Correspondence with Charles Van Wyck Brooks, 1939-1943.
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Brooks, Inez Helena Seibert, 1914-1988,
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Inez Seibert was a modernist painter who married Van Wyck Brooks's son Charles Van Wyck Brooks in 1936, at the age of twenty-two. She continued to paint, under the tutelege Arthur Dove, before moving to France with Charles (1937-1939). On returning to the United States, she and Charles moved to California, where they had a son, Peter (b. 1940), and she continued to paint. By the late 1940s, Inez was showing symptoms of schizophrenia (then untreatable), and the couple separated and divorced (1948...
Birkeland, Joran.
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Joran Jacobine Birkeland was a friend of the Charles Van Wyck Brooks who translated Norweigian works for E. P. Dutton and had published a book about her Norwegian family (Birchland: A Journey Home to Norway, 1939). She married Charlie's friend D'Arcy McNickle in 1926, and had a daughter, Antoinette (Toni) with McNickle before he divorced her in 1938. Throughout the late 1930s (including before her divorce) she was involved with Murray Goodwin, another of Charlie's friends. Birkeland then left Go...
Brooks, Charles Van Wyck.
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Charles Van Wyck Brooks was the son of American writer Van Wyck and Eleanor Stimson Brooks, born in California in 1912. After attending Williston Academy in Massachusetts, he attended Harvard University. Charles spent his post-college years traveling, engaging in literary work for the Federal Writers Project and translating the private journals of Henri Frederic Amiel (published 1935). In 1936, he married young modernist painter Inez Helena Seibert, and the two lived in France for several years ...