Edmund Wilson

Edmund Wilson
Persona informo
Naskiĝo	8-an de majo 1895 (1895-05-08) en Red Bank
Morto	12-an de junio 1972 (1972-06-12) (77-jaraĝa) en Talcottville
Mortis per	kardivaskulsistema malsano vd
Tombo	Pleasant Hill Cemetery vd
Lingvoj	angla vd
Loĝloko	Talcottville vd
Ŝtataneco	Usono vd
Alma mater	The Hill School • Universitato Princeton • Universitato Kolumbio vd
Familio
Patro	Edmund Wilson, Sr. vd
Edz(in)o	Mary McCarthy • Elena Mumm Thornton Wilson vd
Profesio
Okupo	ĵurnalisto • poeto • dramaturgo • literaturkritikisto • eseisto • socia kritikisto • verkisto • historiisto • redaktoro • redaktisto vd
Laborkampo	literary activity • literatura kritiko • redaktado vd
Verkado
Verkoj	To the Finland Station ❦ Patriotic Gore vd
Honorigoj Honorigoj Guggenheim-stipendio • Emerson-Thoreau Medal • Prezidenta medalo de libereco vd
vd	Fonto: Vikidatumoj

Edmund WILSON Jr. (8a de Majo, 1895 – 12a de Junio, 1972) estis usona verkisto, literatura kritikisto kaj ĵurnalisto. Li estis amplekse konsiderata unu el la plej gravaj literaturaj kritikistoj de la 20-a jarcento. Wilson ekkarieris kiel ĵurnalisto, verkante por publikaĵoj kiel Vanity Fair kaj The New Yorker. Li helpis eldoni The New Republic, servis kiel ĉefa librokritikisto por The New Yorker, kaj estis ofta kontribuanto por The New York Review of Books. Wilson verkis pli ol 20 librojn, kiel Axel's Castle, Patriotic Gore, kaj fikcian verkon, Memoirs of Hecate County. Li estis amiko de multaj gravuloj, kiel F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, kaj John Dos Passos. Lia programo por serio Library of America de usonaj klasikaĵoj realiĝis pere de la klopodoj fare de Jason Epstein post la morto de Wilson. Dufoje li ricevis la premion de la National Book kaj la Prezidentan Medalon de Libereco en 1964.

Verkoj

Literatura kritiko

• Axel's Castle: A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870–1930, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931
• The Triple Thinkers: Ten Essays on Literature, Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1938
• The Wound and the Bow: Seven Studies in Literature, Riverside Press, 1941; ebook
• The Boys in the Back Room, Colt Press, 1941
• The Shock of Recognition: The Development of Literature in the U.S. Recorded by the Men Who Made It (eld.), Modern Library, 1943,
  • Volume I. The Nineteenth Century
  • Volume II. The Twentieth Century
• The Triple Thinkers: Twelve Essays on Literary Subjects, Farrar, Straus & Co., 1948; ebook
• Classics and Commercials: A Literary Chronicle of the Forties, Farrar, Straus & Co, 1950; 1999 pbk edition 2019 ebook
• The Shores of Light: A Literary Chronicle of the Twenties and Thirties, Farrar, Straus & Young, 1952
• Eight Essays, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1954; 2019 ebook
• The Scrolls from the Dead Sea, Fontana, 1955
• Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War, New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1962
• The Bit Between My Teeth: A Literary Chronicle of 1950–1965, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966
• The Dead Sea Scrolls, 1947–1969, Oxford University Press, 1969 lccn 75083505
• Window on Russia: For Use of Foreign Readers, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972
• The Devils and Canon Barham; Ten Essays on Poets, Novelists and Monsters, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973; ebook
• The Portable Edmund Wilson, eld. Lewis M. Dabney, Viking Press, 1983
• The Forties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period, eld. Leon Edel, Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1983; ebook
• From the Uncollected Edmund Wilson, eld. Janet Groth, Ohio University Press, 1995
• The Edmund Wilson Reader, eld. Lewis M. Dabney, Da Capo Press, 1997, lccn 97022105, ISBN = 0306808099
• Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s & 30s: The Shores of Light, Axel's Castle, Uncollected Reviews ed. Lewis M. Dabney, Library of America, 2007
• Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s & 40s: The Triple Thinkers, The Wound and the Bow, Classics and Commercials, Uncollected Reviews, ekd. Lewis M. Dabney, Library of America, 2007

Politikaj verkoj

• The American Jitters: A Year of the Slump, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932
• The Undertaker's Garland (kun John Peale Bishop), Alfred A. Knopf, 1922
• Travels In Two Democracies, Harcourt Brace, 1936
• To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History, Doubleday, 1940
• Europe without Baedeker: Sketches among the Ruins of Italy, Greece and England, 1947
• Red, Black, Blond, and Olive: Studies in Four Civilizations: Zuni, Haiti, Soviet Russia, Israel, Oxford University Press, 1956
• The American Earthquake: A Documentary of the Twenties and Thirties (A Documentary of the Jazz Age, the Great Depression, and the New Deal), Doubleday, 1958
• Apologies to the Iroquois, Vintage, 1960
• The Cold War and the Income Tax: A protest, Farrar, Straus & Co., 1964
• O Canada: An American's Notes on Canadian Culture, Farrar, Straus & Co., 1965
• Letters on Literature and Politics, ed. Elena Wilson, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977

Poezio

• Poets, Farewell!, Charles Scribners's Sons, 1929
• Night Thoughts, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1961

Memoroj kaj taglibroj

• A Piece of My Mind: Reflections at Sixty, Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1956
• A Prelude: Landscapes, characters and conversations from the earlier years of my life, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1967
• Upstate: Records and Recollections of Northern New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971
• The Twenties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period, eld. Leon Edel, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975
• The Thirties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period, eld. Leon Edel, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980
• The Forties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period, eld. Leon Edel, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983
• The Fifties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period, eld. Leon Edel, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986
• The Sixties: The Last Journal 1960–1972, eld. Lewis M. Dabney, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993
• Edmund Wilson: The Man in Letters, eld. Janet Groth, Ohio University Press, 2001
• Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya: The Nabokov-Wilson Letters, 1940-1971, eld. Simon Karlinsky, University of California Press, 1979, kaj 2001

Fikcio

• "Galahad", 1927
• I Thought of Daisy, 1929
• Memoirs of Hecate County, Doubleday, 1946

Teatraĵoj

• Cyprian's Prayer 1924
• The Crime in the Whispering Room 1927
• This Room and This Gin and These Sandwiches 1937 (dekomence "A Winter in Beech Street")
• Beppo and Beth 1937
• The Little Blue Light 1950
• Five Plays 1954 kolektas Cyprian's Prayer, The Crime in the Whispering Room, This Room and This Gin and These Sandwiches, Beppo and Beth, kaj The Little Blue Light.
• Dr. McGrath 1967
• The Duke of Palermo 1969
• Osbert's Career, or the Poet's Progress 1969

Eksteraj ligiloj

• Lewis M. Dabney, Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 0-374-11312-2

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