Word: essayist
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Judge Robert Grant '73 will be the guest of honor at the annual Union dinner this evening at 7 o'clock. Judge Grant, in addition to his legal accomplishments, is well known as a novelist, essayist, and author of short stories, including "The Confessions of a Frivolous Girl", 'The Little Tin God on Wheels", "An Average Man", "The Knave of Hearts", "The Bachelor's Christmas", 'The Convictions of a Grandfather", and many other volumes. He holds from Harvard the degrees of A.B. (1873), Ph.D. (1876), and LL.B. (1899) and from Columbia that of Litt.D...
Heywood Broun is as much a phenomenon in American letters as any other man of whom I can at this moment think. Sport writer, feature writer, dramatic critic, columnist, essayist, novelist?he does all of these things, if not artistically, certainly successfully. His column in The New York World is followed avidly. His first novel, The Boy Grew Older, was received with some critical praise. One book of essays from the pen achieved a healthy sale. In my opinion, he is great only as a journalist; but as a journalist he is indubitably great...
...Author. L. H. Myers is an Englishman, the son of the late Frederic Myers, who was president of the Psychical Society-a biographer, essayist and mystic. The Orissers is Mr. Myers' first novel-a novel that, it is said, he took ten years to write...
Professor Robert Gay of the English Department of Simmons College addressed the English 28 Club on "The Significance of the Essay Today" last night in Gore Hall Common Room, declaring that Frank Moore Colby is America's foremost essayist Professor Gay also stated that the modern newspaper column is the incubator of the modern essay, and said, "Being an 'ocular athlete', that is seeing things that other people pass by unobserved, is one of the greatest aids to essay writing...
...Cobb is a well-known American humorist. He has been a staff contributor to the "Saturday Evening Post" since 1911; from 1914-1915 and again from 1917-1918, he represented that magazine as war correspondent. He is a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. Mr. John Collins Squire, English essayist and poet, is the Editor of the English literary magazine, the "London Mercury". Mr. Alfred E. Zimmern, Wilson Professor of International Politics at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, Wales, is a prominent author and historian. Among his works is a translation of the first two volumes of Ferrero...