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Born Ferris Lowell Greenslet
American editor and writer
Born on June 30, 1875 in Glens Falls, New York , United States
Died on November 19, 1959 in Cambridge, Massachusetts , United States
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... Ferris Lowell Greenslet (June 30, 1875 in Glens Falls, New York – November 19, 1959 in Boston) was an American editor and writer.
Biography
Greenslet graduated from Wesleyan University in 1897, and earned both an M.S. and the Ph.D. by Columbia University in 1900. In 1901 he moved to Boston, where after working at the Boston Public Library and the "Boston Advertiser", he became an associate editor of the Atlantic Monthly, 1902–07. In 1910, he became a literary advisor and director of the Houghton Mifflin Co. publishing firm, continuing that employment for fifty-two years.
Ferris Greenslet wrote several biographies. He also wrote a collection of reminiscences, Under the Bridge published in 1943. He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on November 19, 1959
Bibliography
1900 Joseph Glanvill – A Study in English Thought and Letters of the Seventeenth Century
1903 The Quest of the Holy Grail
1911 (1903) Walter Pater
1905 James Russell Lowell: His Life and Work
1908 Life of Thomas Bailey Aldrich
1943 Under the Bridge: An Autobiography. Houghton Mifflin
1945 (with Charles P. Curtis, Jr.). The Practical Cogitator: The Thinker's Anthology. Houghton Mifflin. 3rd Edition (1985) ISBN 0395346355
1946 The Lowells and Their Seven Worlds. Houghton Mifflin
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
Elihu Vedder Collection, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.
External links
University of California: Letter from Ferris Greenslet to John Muir, 1910 Jun 9.
Biography from Wikipedia (see original) under licence CC BY-SA 3.0
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