With its proximity to the cultural hub of New York City and its quieter suburban and rural landscapes, Connecticut was fertile ground for artists and writers in the period of Modernist movements between 1913 and 1979. Many of these cultural figures are well known through biographical and critical studies. Creative Places seeks to show how place played a significant role in creative work, and how in turn the artists and writers influenced communities in Connecticut.
Edmund Wilson
1895 – 1972
- Biography/Description of Work
Wilson wrote three novels but is better known at a prominent literary critic from the mid-1920s to the early 1960s. He was as editor at Vanity Fair, the New Republic and a contributor to The New Yorker. He influenced writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Jon Dos Passos, creating through his reviews appreciation for their works and those of Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. Wilson spent three years, 1936-1939, at a house on Westover Road in Stamford called “Trees.” While there he published a book of literary criticism, “The Triple Thinkers,” a compilation of articles that had appeared in magazines such as the Atlantic Monthly and New Republic.
- Sources view
- https://books.google.com/books?id=6bhdAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA168&lpg=PA168&dq=edmund+wilson+connecticut&source=bl&ots=huAxs_yUMN&sig=ACfU3U1N590Zm-P-8pyty1Y7mD0zljRTYg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjZw4K88MXpAhX8g3IEHQfMB6YQ6AEwB3oECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=edmund%20wilson%20connecticut&f=false https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Wilson
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