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Richard Watson Gilder
Richard Watson Gilder , 1844-1909, American editor and poet, b. Bordentown, N.J. In 1869 he became an editor of the magazine Hours at Home, which merged with Scribner's Monthly in 1870. Just before Scribner's became the Century, Gilder succeeded J. G. Holland as its editor (1881), a position... Read more |
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Samuel Irenaeus Prime
Samuel Irenaeus Prime 1812-85, American Presbyterian clergyman and editor, b. Ballston Spa, N.Y. After holding pastorates at Ballston Spa and Matteawan, N.Y., he became assistant editor (1840-49) of the New-York Observer and later editor (1851-85). In this religious periodical, which he helped to... Read more |
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Thomas Percy
Thomas Percy 1729-1811, English antiquary and churchman, b. Shropshire. In 1782 he became Protestant bishop of Dromore (Ireland). He achieved literary fame as the editor of the Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (3 vol., 1765), a collection of 176 English and Scottish ballads. Its publication... Read more |
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Lewis Gaylord Clark
Lewis Gaylord Clark 1808?-1873, American editor and writer, b. near Syracuse, N.Y. He was the editor (1834-60) of the Knickerbocker Magazine and made it a leading literary publication of its day. He wrote Knickerbocker Sketch-Book (1845) and Knick-Knacks from an Editor's Table (1852). His... Read more |
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Harold Wallace Ross
Harold Wallace Ross 1892-1951, American editor, b. Aspen, Colo. He founded The New Yorker magazine in 1925 and was its influential managing editor until his death. Ross quit school at the age of 14 to work at the Salt Lake City Tribune. During World War I he edited Stars and Stripes in... Read more |
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Richard Hurd
Richard Hurd 1720-1808, English theologian, editor, and critic. From 1781 until his death he was bishop of Worcester. His best-known works are Moral and Political Dialogues (1757) and Letters on Chivalry and Romance (1762), an examination of knight-errantry and Gothic literature.... Read more |
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Eduard Buchner
Buchner, Eduard (b. Munich, Germany, 20 May, 1860; d. Focsani, Rumania, 13 August 1917) chemistry. Buchner came from an old Bavarian family of scholars. His father, Ernst, was professor of forensic medicine and obstetrics as well as editor of the Read more |
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David Riesman
David Riesman The American sociologist, writer, and social critic David Riesman (born 1909) was a leading authority on higher education and on developments in American society. David Riesman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1909. His father, also named David Riesman, was a... Read more |
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