Reminiscences of John Hall Wheelock : oral history, 1967.

Biographical Note

Author, poet.

Scope and Contents

Family history and childhood; Harvard College; work on literary publications; career as editor for Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926-57: clients and staff; career as poet: influences, publications, evaluations of his own and others' work; anecdotes concerning Zoe Akins, Van Wyck Brooks, Vachel Lindsay, Edgar Lee Masters, Maxwell Perkins, Edwin Arlington Robinson, the Charles Scribner family, Edward Sheldon, Sara Teasdale, Oscar Williams, Thomas Wolfe, and many others.

Subjects

• American literature--20th century.
• Authors--Interviews.
• Book industries and trade.
• Charles Scribner's Sons.
• Editing.
• Editors--Interviews.
• Hawkins, Robbin, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Literature--History and criticism.
• Oral histories.
• Poetry.
• Poets--Interviews.
• Wheelock, John Hall, 1886-1978.

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