Ferris Greenslet

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Ferris Lowell Greenslet (1875, Glens Falls, New York -- 1959, Boston) was an American editor and writer.

[edit] Biography

Greenslet graduated from Wesleyan University in 1897, and was awarded the Ph.D. by Columbia University in 1900. He was an associate editor of the Atlantic Monthly, 1902-07. In 1910, he became a literary advisor and director of the Houghton Mifflin Co. publishing firm.

[edit] Bibliography

• 1900. Joseph Glanvill-A Study in English Thought and Letters of the Seventeenth Century.
• 1903. The Quest of the Holy Grail.
• 1911 (1903). Walter Pater.
• 1905. James Russel Lowell: His Life and Work.
• 1908. Life of Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
• 1945 (with Charles Curtis). The Practical Cogitator. Houghton Mifflin.
• 1946. The Lowells and Their Seven Worlds. Houghton Mifflin.

[edit] References

• This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.