Roy Wilson Follett (March 21, 1887 – January 7, 1963) was an American writer known for writing the draft form of what became ''
Follett's Modern American Usage
''Follett's Modern American Usage'' is the book published with the title ''Modern American Usage'' which was left in draft form and unfinished by Wilson Follett at his death. It was completed and edited by his friend Jacques Barzun in collaboratio ...
'', which was unfinished at his death and was completed and edited by his friend
Jacques Barzun
Jacques Martin Barzun (; November 30, 1907 – October 25, 2012) was a French-American historian known for his studies of the history of ideas and cultural history. He wrote about a wide range of subjects, including baseball, mystery novels, and ...
(in collaboration with six other people who helped with the editing) and published posthumously.
He was educated at Harvard and taught at Brown University. In 1921, he was one of the dedicatees of James Branch Cabell's novel ''
Figures of Earth''. He also edited ''The Work of
Stephen Crane
Stephen Crane (November 1, 1871 – June 5, 1900) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism an ...
'' in twelve volumes (1925–27), the first collected edition of Crane's writings. His novel ''No More Sea'' came in third in the voting for the 1934 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
[Complete Historical Handbook of the Pulitzer Prize System 1917-2000 by H. and E. Fischer] He was the father of
, a child-prodigy author who disappeared in 1939 at the age of 25. He abandoned his wife and Barbara in the 1920s for a younger woman.
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1887 births
1963 deaths
Writers of style guides
Brown University faculty
Harvard University alumni
20th-century American male writers
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