| Van Wyck Brooks Born: 16-Feb-1886
Birthplace: Plainfield, NJ
Died: 2-May-1963
Location of death: Bridgewater, CT
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Center Cemetery, Bridgewater, CT
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Critic, Author Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Finders & Makers Father: Charles Brooks
Mother: Sarah Ames
Wife: Eleanor Stimson (d.)
Wife: Gladys Billings
University: AB, Harvard University (1907)
Pulitzer Prize for History 1937 for The Flowering of New England
American Academy of Arts and Letters
American Philosophical Society
Royal Society of Literature
Author of books:
The Wine of the Puritans: A Study of Present Day Americans (1908)
The Malady of the Ideal: Obermann, Maurice de Guerin and Amiel (1913)
John Addington Symonds: A Biographical Study (1914)
The World of H. G. Wells (1915)
America's Coming-of-Age (1915)
The Ordeal of Mark Twain (1920)
The Pilgrimage of Henry James (1925)
The Life of Emerson (1932)
Three Essays on America (1934)
The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865 (1936, Finders & Makers)
New England: Indian Summer, 1865-1915 (1940, Finders & Makers)
Opinions of Oliver Allston (1941)
On Literature Today (1941)
The World of Washington Irving (1944, Finders & Makers)
The Times of Melville and Whitman (1947, Finders & Makers)
A Chilmark Miscellany (1948)
The Confident Years: 1885-1915 (1952, Finders & Makers)
Makers and Finders (1952)
The Writer in America (1953)
Scenes and Portraits: Memoirs of Childhood and Youth (1954)
John Sloan: A Painter's Life (1955)
Helen Keller: Sketch for a Portrait (1956)
Days of the Phoenix: The Nineteen-Twenties I Remember (1957)
The Dream of Arcadia: American Writers and Artists in Italy 1760-1915 (1958)
From A Writer's Notebook (1958)
Howells: His Life and World (1959)
From the Shadow of the Mountain: My Post-Meridian Years (1961)
Fenollosa and His Circle: With Other Essays in Biography (1962)
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