William Belmont Parker
William Belmont Parker (born Hasbury, England, 19 September 1871; died 1934) was a United States editor.
Biography
He came to the United States in early youth, graduated from Harvard in 1897, and in 1898-1902 was assistant editor of the Atlantic Monthly. He was literary adviser to Houghton, Mifflin and Company, New York City, in 1902-04; instructor in English at Harvard in 1904-05 and lecturer in that subject at Columbia in 1905-08.
He was advisory editor of the Associated Sunday Magazines in 1906-08, and literary editor of The World's Work in 1908. He was editor and literary adviser to the Baker and Taylor Company in 1909-12, and literary adviser to the Century Company in 1912. He was business manager of the Churchman in 1912-14. Beginning in 1914, he was an editor with S. Pearson and Son.
Works
He edited:
- James Russell Lowell's Anti-Slavery Papers (1903)
- Philip Sidney's Certaine Sonets (1904)
- Complete Poems of Edward Rowland Sill (1906)
- The Wisdom of Emerson (1909)
- Letters and Addresses of Thomas Jefferson, joint editor (1905)
He wrote:
- Life of Edward Rowland Sill (1915)
- Argentines of to-day (1921, The Hispanic Society of America)
- Bolivians of to-day (1921, The Hispanic Society of America) ((full text online (2nd ed.))
- Chileans of to-day (1921, The Hispanic Society of America)
- Cubans of to-day (1921, The Hispanic Society of America)
- Paraguayans of to-day (1921, The Hispanic Society of America)
- Uruguayans of to-day (1921, The Hispanic Society of America)
All texts can be read at Archive.org.
External links
Notes
References
- "William Belmont Parker". Open Library. Retrieved 17 May 2012.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Parker, William Belmont". Encyclopedia Americana.