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The Life & Letters of Walter H. Page: Journalist, Publisher, Diplomat, and Editor of The Atlantic
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
In his storied career, Walter Hines Page (1855 –1918) was known as many an American journalist, publisher, and diplomat. He was the United States ambassador to the United Kingdom during World War I, and went on to become the editor of The Atlantic Monthly for several years as well as a literary adviser to book publisher Houghton Mifflin.
Yet there was little known about the man and prolific editor until Burton Jesse Hendrick’s seminal work. These pages represent both a biography of the complex W.H Page, as well as the consolidated, annotated letters from his life.
This work outlines Page’s early days as founder of the State Chronicle , a newspaper in Raleigh, North Carolina, and worked with other leaders to gain legislative approval for what is now known as North Carolina State University, which established as a land-grant college in 1885. He worked on several newspapers, including the New York World and Evening Post before joining The Atlantic, and for more than a decade was a partner of a major book publisher Doubleday, Page & Company in New York City.
This work is critical in understanding the life and times of a storied publisher who would go on to become on of the most influential forces in writing, publishing, and diplomacy in the first half of the American century.
About the Burton Jesse Hendrick was an American author, editor of both The Yale Courant and The Yale Literary Magazine, and a three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, including in 1921 for The Victory at Sea , 1923 for The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page , and 1929 for The Training of An American .
In his storied career, Walter Hines Page (1855 –1918) was known as many an American journalist, publisher, and diplomat. He was the United States ambassador to the United Kingdom during World War I, and went on to become the editor of The Atlantic Monthly for several years as well as a literary adviser to book publisher Houghton Mifflin.
Yet there was little known about the man and prolific editor until Burton Jesse Hendrick’s seminal work. These pages represent both a biography of the complex W.H Page, as well as the consolidated, annotated letters from his life.
This work outlines Page’s early days as founder of the State Chronicle , a newspaper in Raleigh, North Carolina, and worked with other leaders to gain legislative approval for what is now known as North Carolina State University, which established as a land-grant college in 1885. He worked on several newspapers, including the New York World and Evening Post before joining The Atlantic, and for more than a decade was a partner of a major book publisher Doubleday, Page & Company in New York City.
This work is critical in understanding the life and times of a storied publisher who would go on to become on of the most influential forces in writing, publishing, and diplomacy in the first half of the American century.
About the Burton Jesse Hendrick was an American author, editor of both The Yale Courant and The Yale Literary Magazine, and a three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, including in 1921 for The Victory at Sea , 1923 for The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page , and 1929 for The Training of An American .
539 pages, Paperback
Published December 18, 2022
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Burton J. Hendrick
65 books2 followersAssociate editor of World's Work 1913-27. Three-time Pulitzer Prize winner: in American History for the co-written A Victory at Sea (1920) and in American Biography for the first volume of The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page (1922) and The Training of an American (1928).
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