Edmund Wilson was born in Red Bank, NJ to a prominent local family. Edmund Wilson Sr., his father, was the New Jersey Attorney General.
While attending a college predatory boarding school, The Hill School in Pottstown, PA, Mr. Wilson served as the editor-in-chief of the school’s literary magazine.
Not everyone gets things right, and Mr. Wilson didn’t as well calling the writing of horror writer H. P. Lovecraft “hackwork”, and referring to Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings as “juvenile trash”.
For about 4 decades, from the 1920s to the 1960s, Mr. Wilson was the premier literary critic in America.
Mr. Wilson wrote that American English offered more advantages to the writer, because it incorporates the foreign elements brought to America by immigrants.
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