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Philip Freneau Philip Freneau
Philip Freneau , 1752-1832, American poet and journalist, b. New York City, grad. Princeton, 1771. During the American Revolution he served as soldier and privateer. His experiences as a prisoner of war were recorded in his poem The British Prison Ship (1781). The first professional American... Read more
Daniel OConnell (Irish statesman) Daniel OConnell (Irish statesman)
Liberator, The, (1831–65), Abolitionist weekly, was founded at Boston by W.L. Garrison. Its editorial policy was of a militant‐pacifist type, denouncing slavery, calling for its immediate abolition and the enfranchisement of all American blacks, but having no specific program for... Read more
Edward Eggleston Edward Eggleston
Edward Eggleston 1837-1902, American author, Methodist clergyman, b. Vevay, Ind., educated in frontier schools. Before 1870 he was a Bible agent, a farm worker, a circuit rider in Minnesota and Indiana, and a journalist in Chicago. He then joined the editorial staff of the Independent in New... Read more
Tina Brown Tina Brown
Tina Brown Jumping onto journalism's fast track in 1974, British-born Tina Brown (Christina Hambly Brown, born 1953) transformed the English magazine Tatler, then the U.S. magazines Vanity Fair and the New Yorker, using controversial topics and challenging images. Her editorial rabbit punches... Read more
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Sartoris, novel by Faulkner, published in 1929 with editorial cuts. Flags in the Dust (1973) is the full text.Bayard Sartoris comes home to Jefferson, Miss., from combat as an aviator in World War I, in which his twin brother John, also a flyer, has been killed. His grandfather, old Bayard, head of... Read more
Claude G. Bowers Claude G. Bowers
Claude Gernade Bowers The American journalist, historian, and diplomat Claude Gernade Bowers (1878-1958) wrote partisan but influential works on American political leaders. He had a successful career as an editorial columnist and as an ambassador. Claude Bowers was born in Westfield, Ind.,... Read more
Peter Haining Peter Haining
Haining, Peter (1940-) British novelist, writer on occult subjects, and anthologist of horror stories. Born April 2, 1940, in Enfield, Middlesex, England, Haining was educated in Buckhurst Hill, England. He worked as a journalist and magazine writer (1957-63) and successively as editor, senior... Read more
Henry Demarest Lloyd Henry Demarest Lloyd
Henry Demarest Lloyd 1847-1903, American reformer, b. New York City. He was on the editorial staff of the Chicago Tribune from 1872 to 1885 but resigned to study social problems. His Wealth against Commonwealth (1894) is an attack on monopolies, based especially on an analysis of the Standard... Read more
Henry Watterson Henry Watterson
Watterson, Henry (1840–1921), editor of the Louisville Courier‐Journal (1868–1918). He was considered a typical Southerner and was called “ Marse Henry,” the title also of his autobiography (1919). A collection of his Editorials was published in 1923.... Read more
David Graham Phillips David Graham Phillips
David Graham Phillips 1867-1911, American writer, b. Madison, Ind., grad. College of New Jersey (now Princeton), 1887. He worked as a newspaper reporter in Cincinnati and New York City, rising to editorial rank on the New York World, for which he wrote until 1902. Phillips became noted as a ... Read more

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