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'', 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

Barbara Newhall Follett Barbara Newhall Follett
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, 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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