Sydney Brooks

Sydney Brooks (1872–1937) was a British author and critic.[1][2] Brooks was a frequent contributor to the Saturday Review and was in England writing reviews in late 1895 through January 1896, when he left to visit Chicago.[3] In America his critical reviews and writings were sold to publications such as Harper's Magazine.[4]

Brooks was a notable passenger who was aboard the SS Tuscania,[5] a luxury liner of the Cunard subsidiary Anchor Line when it was torpedoed in 1918 by the German U-boat UB-77 while carrying American troops to Europe and sank with a loss of 210 lives.[6]

References

  1. ^ http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Sydney_Brooks
  2. ^ http://www.jstor.org/pss/25104874
  3. ^ http://xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper/CRANE/reviews/brooks.html
  4. ^ http://harpers.org/subjects/SydneyBrooks
  5. ^ "Britain's Heart Now of Granite" The New York Times, January 19, 1916: p.2
  6. ^ Massie, Robert K. Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea. New York: Ballantine Books, 2004. ISBN 0-345-40878-0