William Lyon Phelps
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William Lyon Phelps (2 January 1865 - 21 August 1943) was an American author, critic and scholar. Phelps gained a B.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University and an M.A. from Harvard University, where he went on to teach for just one year before returning to Yale to hold a position in the English department for 41 years. From 1941 to 1943 he was the director of the Hall of Fame for Great Americans.
His works include;
- Essays on Modern Novelists (1910),
- Advance of the English Novel (1916),
- Essays on Modern Dramatists (1921-1922),
- As I Like It (1923),
- Autobiography with Letters (1939),
- Marriage (1940).
[edit] External links
- Works by William Lyon Phelps at Project Gutenberg
- "Human Nature in the Bible", by William Lyon Phelps, 1923.
