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William Lyon Phelps

William Lyon PhelpsBorn: 2-Jan-1865
Birthplace: New Haven, CT
Died: 21-Aug-1943
Location of death: New Haven, CT
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Religion: Anglican/Episcopalian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Critic

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Essays on Modern Novelists

Wife: Annabel (d. 1939 stroke)

    University: BA, Yale University (1887)
    University: PhD, Yale University (1891)
    University: MA, Harvard University (1891)
    Professor: Harvard University (one year)
    Professor: Yale University (1892-1933)
    Professor: Lampson Professor, Yale University (1901-33)

Author of books:
Essays on Modern Novelists (1910)
Advance of the English Novel (1916)
Essays on Modern Dramatists (1921-22)
As I Like It (1923)
What I Like in Poetry (1934)
Autobiography with Letters (1939)
Marriage (1940)



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