Reminiscences of Frank Ernest Hill, 1961.

Biographical Note

Journalist, author

Scope and Contents

Family background and boyhood in California; Stanford University and Columbia, 1913-1917; editorial writer, New York GLOBE and New York SUN, literary editor SUN, 1925; editor, Longmans, Green Company, 1925-1931: authors, manuscripts, New York City literary and publishing circles; THE WINGED HORSE, 1927; adult educational programs, Columbia Broadcasting System; lecturing and freelance writing, poetry and prose, WESTWARD STAR, THE CANTERBURY TALES, texts and young people's books; collaboration with Allan Nevins on biographies of Rockefeller and Ford; Radio Pioneers project for the Oral History Research Office. Comments on publishing, books, and authors, especially Allan Nevins, Don Marquis, Edwin Markham, Vachel Linsday, Carl Sandburg

Subjects

• American literature--20th century.
• Auerbach, Jerold, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Authors--Interviews.
• Book industries and trade.
• Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.
• Columbia University. Oral History Research Office.
• Editors--Interviews.
• Hill, Frank Ernest, 1888-1969--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Journalism.
• Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Oral history.
• Radio in adult education.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1972