Correspondence to Charles Van Wyck Brooks, 1932-1948.

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Correspondence to Charles Van Wyck Brooks, 1932-1948.

27 items (57 leaves)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6958719

University of Pennsylvania Library

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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 ...

Brooks, Oliver Kenyon, 1916-,

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Kenyon Brooks was the son of American writer Van Wyck Brooks and Eleanor Stimson Brooks, brother of Charles Van Wyck Brooks. He graduated from the Loomis School in Windsor, Connecticut in 1933, at which time he entered Harvard, the school that both his brother Charles and father Van Wyck had attended. Kenyon had no particular career for some time afterwards, though he painted a little. In 1942 he became a midshipman in the naval reserves, and then, after living with his father for some time, ent...