THE OLD STONE HOUSE BY EDMUND WILSON

The Old Stone House by Edmund Wilson

The Old Stone House by Edmund Wilson

Introduction

Edmund Wilson was born on 8 May 1895 and died on 12 June 1972. He was a writer, journalist, novelist, play writer and literary critic. He became the Deputy Editor of The New Republic, director of Vanity Fair and literary critic for New Yorker (Frank 1970). He writing was influenced by authors such as Sinclair Lewis, John Dos Passos and Upton Sinclair. He was married to the novelist Mary McCarthy. Williams was responsible for making ??the audience discover the works of William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway or F. Scott Fitzgerald and others. (Frank 1970)

Edmund Wilson is considered one of the biggest critics of the American twentieth century - and perhaps the greatest (Frank 1970).

Edmund Wilson was the dominant American literary critic from the 1920s until his death in 1972 but, he was so far more than that: a chronicler of his times, a historian of ideas, and a probing observer of himself and of the society around him. With this volume and a companion volume devoted to the 30s and 40s - the first two entries in what will be a series devoted to Wilson's work - The Library of America pays tribute to the writer who first conceived the idea of ??a publishing series dedicated to "bringing out in a complete and compact form the principal American classics." (Frank 1970)

His dedication to good composition was one of the grand constants of his lifetime. It first became evident at the Hill School, where he braced himself for college, continued at Princeton, where he was a part of a Charter Club and helped T. K. Whipple in the great resurgence of the Nassau Lit, and switched later on to New York, where he attended briefly ...