Ferris Lowell Greenslet (June 30, 1875 in

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– November 19, 1959 in

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) was an American editor and writer.

Biography

Greenslet graduated from

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in 1897, and earned both an M.S. and the

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in 1900. In 1901 he moved to Boston, where after working at the Boston Public Library and the "Boston Advertiser", he became an associate editor of the ''

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'', 1902–07. In 1910, he became a literary advisor and director of the Houghton Mifflin Co. publishing firm, continuing that employment for fifty-two years. Ferris Greenslet wrote several biographies. He also wrote a collection of reminiscences, ''Under the Bridge'' published in 1943. He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on November 19, 1959

Bibliography

* 1900 ''

Joseph Glanvill Joseph Glanvill (1636 – 4 November 1680) was an English writer, philosopher, and clergyman. Not himself a scientist, he has been called "the most skillful apologist of the virtuosi", or in other words the leading propagandist for the approa ...

– A Study in English Thought and Letters of the Seventeenth Century'' * 1903 ''The Quest of the

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'' * 1911 (1903) ''

Walter Pater Walter Horatio Pater (4 August 1839 – 30 July 1894) was an English essayist, art critic and literary critic, and fiction writer, regarded as one of the great stylists. His first and most often reprinted book, ''Studies in the History of the Re ...

'' * 1905 ''

James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell (; February 22, 1819 – August 12, 1891) was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the fireside poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets that ri ...

: His Life and Work'' * 1908 ''Life of

Thomas Bailey Aldrich Thomas Bailey Aldrich (; November 11, 1836 – March 19, 1907) was an American writer, poet, critic, and editor. He is notable for his long editorship of ''The Atlantic, The Atlantic Monthly'', during which he published writers including Charles ...

'' * 1943 ''Under the Bridge: An Autobiography''. Houghton Mifflin * 1945 (with Charles P. Curtis, Jr.). ''The Practical Cogitator: The Thinker's Anthology''. Houghton Mifflin. 3rd Edition (1985) * 1946 ''The Lowells and Their Seven Worlds''. Houghton Mifflin

References

*
Elihu Vedder Collection, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.

External links

University of California: Letter from Ferris Greenslet to John Muir, 1910 Jun 9.
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