Van Wyck Brooks

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American literary critic, biographer and historian (1886-1963)

United StatesWritersLived 1886 to 1963 · aged 77

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Languages12

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Portrait of Van Wyck Brooks by John Butler Yeats, 1909Members of the Independent Voters Committee of the Arts and Sciences for Roosevelt visit FDR at the White House (October 1944). From left: Van Wyck Brooks, Hannah Dorner, Jo Davidson, Jan Kiepura, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Gish, Dr. Harlow Shapley

Awards 3

1937Pulitzer Prize for History

1936National Book Award

Rome Prize

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About this person

Country

United States

Category

Writers

Type

Writer / Author

Status

deceased

Dates

Lived 1886 to 1963 · aged 77

Written about in

12 languages

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