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Time , where Kronenberger worked (1938–1961)
Louis Kronenberger (December 9, 1904 – April 30, 1980) was an American literary critic (longest with Time [1]
Background [ edit ]
Kronenberger was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Louis Kronenberger Sr., a merchant, and Mabel Newwitter. Kronenberger attended, but did not graduate from, the University of Cincinnati from 1921 to 1924.[1]
He moved to New York in 1924 and began his career at the New York Times [1] Boni & Liveright and in 1933, at Alfred A. Knopf .[1]
In 1938, he became drama critic for Time [1] William Saroyan listed Kronenberger among the associate editors at Time in the play, Love's Old Sweet Song .[2] Whittaker Chambers , who became editor for the "Back of the Book" (1942-1944).[3] Time was, according to Chambers, "consistently able and sometimes brilliant, because of a small group of men" that included Kronenberger, T. S. Matthews , James Agee , Robert Fitzgerald , Robert Cantwell , Winthrop Sargeant , John K. Jessup, and Calvin Fixx .[4]
In 1940, he also served as a critic for PM [1]
Academic [ edit ]
Kronenberger was a visiting professor at several universities, including City College of New York , Columbia , Harvard , Berkeley .[1] Brandeis .[1]
He was associated with numerous organizations for promoting the arts: Yaddo , Lincoln Center Library-Museum , the National Institute of Arts and Letters , and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .[5]
Personal and death [ edit ]
Kronenberger married Emily L. Plaut in 1940; they had two children : Liza Wanklyn and John Kronenberger [1]
He died on April 30, 1980.[1]
"Kronenberger's praise was a near guarantee of box-office success."[5]
A collection of Louis Kronenberger's papers is held by Princeton University.[1]
John Wilkes by Richard Houston (1769), about whom Kronenberger wrote in 1974
In his later years, Kronenberger wrote biographies, including one of John Wilkes and another of Oscar Wilde .[1] [5]
Books:
The Grand Manner (1929)[1]
Kings and Desperate Men: Life in Eighteenth-Century England (1942)
Grand Right and Left (1952)[1]
The Thread of Laughter: Chapters on English Stage Comedy from Jonson to Maugham (1952)
Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life (1954)
Republic of Letters: Essays on Various Writers (1955)
Marlborough's Duchess: A Study in Worldliness (1958)
Madame De Lafayette: The Story of a Patriot's Wife (1959)
A Month of Sundays (1961)[1]
The Viking Book of Aphorisms (co-authored with W.H. Auden, 1962)
Great World: Portraits and Scenes from Greville's Memoirs, 1814-1860 (1963)
The Cart and the Horse (1964)
The Polished Surface: Essays in the Literature of Worldliness (1969)
The Cutting Edge: A Collection of Witty Insults and Wicked Retorts, of Polished Snubs and Homicidal Repartee (1970)
No Whippings, No Gold Watches (1970) memoirs
A Mania for Magnificence (1972)
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral (1972)
The Last Word: Portraits of Fourteen Master Aphorists (1972)
Extraordinary Mr. Wilkes: His Life and Times (1974)[1]
Oscar Wilde (1976)[1]
Editing:
An Anthology of Light Verse (1935)
An Eighteenth Century Miscellany (1936)
Reader's Companion (1945) editor
The Pleasure of Their Company: An Anthology of Civilized Writing (1946)
The Indispensable Johnson and Boswell (1950)
Alexander Pope: Selected Works (1951)
Cavalcade of Comedy (1953)
George Bernard Shaw : A Critical Survey (1953) * The Portable Johnson and Boswell (1955)
The Maxims of La Rochefoucauld (1959)
Novelists on Novelists (1962) editor
Quality: Its Image in the Arts (1969)
Brief Lives: a Biographical Companion to the Arts (1971)
Oscar Wilde by Napoleon Sarony (1882), about whom Kronenberger wrote in 1976
Books edited with others:
Plays written:
The Heavenly Twins (1955)[1]
Plays translated, adapted:
Mademoiselle Colombe by Jean Anouilh (New York: Coward-McCann, 1954) translated and adapted from the original Colombe (1951)
Plays edited:
Best Plays series (1952-1961):
The Best Plays of 1952-1953, Burns Mantle Yearbook (1953)
The Best Plays of 1953-1954 (1954)
The Best Plays of 1954-1955 (1955)
The Best Plays of 1955-1956 (1956)
The Best Plays of 1956-1957 (1957)
The Best Plays of 1957-1958 (1958)
The Best Plays of 1958-1959 (1959)
The Best Plays of 1959-1960 (1960)
The Best Plays of 1960-1961 (1961)
Four Plays by Bernard Shaw (1953)
Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Six Plays (1964)
Plays edited with others:
The Beggar's Opera by John Gay, A Faithful Reproduction of the 1729 Edition (1961) with Max Goberman
Ibsen (1977) with Harold Clurman
References [ edit ]
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Tanenhaus, Sam (1997). Whittaker Chambers: A Biography ISBN 9780307789266 . Retrieved 5 August 2017 .
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Chambers, Whittaker (1952). Witness ISBN 9780394452333 . Retrieved 7 August 2017 .
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Funston, Judith E. (1999). Kronenberger, Louis . American National Biography.
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