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Van Wyck Brooks (b.
Plainfield, New Jersey,
February 16 1886; d.
Bridgewater, Connecticut,
May 2 1963) was an
American literary critic,
biographer, and
historian. Brooks was educated at
Harvard University and graduated in 1908. The masterpiece of his literary career was a series of studies entitled
Makers and Finders, which chronicled the development of
American literature during
the long 19th century. Brooks' reputation rested on the dexterity with which he embroidered elaborate
biographical detail into brilliant
anecdotal prose. In
1937, Brooks received the
Pulitzer Prize in history for
The Flowering of New England.
He was a long-time resident of
Bridgewater, Connecticut, which built a town library wing in his name. Although a decade-long fund-raising effort seemed to fail and was abandoned in 1972, a miserly hermit in
Los Angeles with no connection to Bridgewater surprised the town by leaving money for the library in his will. With $210,000 raised, the library addition went up in 1980.
Among his works, the book
The Ordeal of Mark Twain, published in 1920, analyzes the literary progression of
Samuel L. Clemens and attributes shortcomings, which are debatable, to Clemens' mother and wife.
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