For other people named Edmund Wilson, see Edmund Wilson (disambiguation).
Edmund Wilson
Wilson in 1936
Born
Edmund Wilson Jr. (1895-05-08)May 8, 1895 Red Bank, New Jersey, U.S.
Died
June 12, 1972(1972-06-12) (aged 77) Talcottville, New York, U.S.
Occupation
Literary critic
essayist
editor
journalist
writer
Alma mater
Princeton University
Genre
Fiction
review of fiction
Notable works
Axel's Castle (1931)
To the Finland Station (1940)
Patriotic Gore (1962)
Notable awards
Edward MacDowell Medal (1964)
National Medal for Literature (1966)
Spouse
Mary McCarthy
(m. 1938–1946)
Edmund Wilson Jr. (May 8, 1895 – June 12, 1972) was an American writer, literary critic and journalist. He is widely regarded as one of the most important literary critics of the 20th century. Wilson began his career as a journalist, writing for publications such as Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. He helped to edit The New Republic, served as chief book critic for The New Yorker, and was a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. Wilson was the author of more than twenty books, including Axel's Castle, Patriotic Gore, and a work of fiction, Memoirs of Hecate County. He was a friend of many notable figures of the time, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and John Dos Passos. His scheme for a Library of America series of national classic works came to fruition through the efforts of Jason Epstein after Wilson's death. He was a two-time winner of the National Book Award and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964.
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novel have been the source of negative critical reaction. For example, EdmundWilson, in a tepid review, noted the encumbrance of "a strange atmosphere of...
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example, soon after the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls novelist EdmundWilson (1955) suggested that Jesus may have studied with the Essenes, followed...
revised his second novel based on editorial suggestions from his friend EdmundWilson and his editor Max Perkins. When reviewing the manuscript, Perkins commended...
critic EdmundWilson posited that the ghosts were hallucinations of the governess, who he suggested was sexually repressed. As evidence, Wilson points...
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so often somebody reprises EdmundWilson's famous put-down of detective novels, 'Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?' Wilson regarded the genre as terminally...
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to Ellerslie in Wilmington, Delaware, in March 1927. Literary critic EdmundWilson, recalling a party at the Fitzgerald home in Edgemoor, Delaware, in...
Nabokov and EdmundWilson began in 1965. After a twenty-five-year friendship which was at times strained due to Nabokov's disdain for Wilson's political...
Fitzgerald's friend EdmundWilson confirmed that Gerlach had primarily inspired the fictional character, including a statement by Wilson that Fitzgerald had...
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