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by. Philip Wylie, Edwin Balmer, John Varley (Introduction) 3.92 avg rating — 2,315 ratings — published 1932 — 57 editions. Want to Read. saving…. Want to Read.
PHILIP WYLIE is an American novelist and critic with a prose that cracks like a whip. Since he intended to become a doctor, his education was largely scientific. But he left Princeton at the end ...
Born in Beverly, Massachusetts, Philip Gordon Wylie was the son of Presbyterian minister Edmund Melville Wylie and the former Edna Edwards, a novelist, who died when Philip was five years old. His family moved to Montclair, New Jersey and he later attended Princeton University from 1920–1923.
May 14, 2019 · Philip Wylie. What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it! Philip Gordon Wylie ( 12 May 1902 – 25 October 1971) was a U.S. author of social criticism, short stories, screenplays, and several science-fiction novels. author.
Philip Wylie (1902–1971) published more than forty books (both fiction and nonfiction), essays, and short stories in his lifetime. A member of the founding staff of the New Yorker, his essays and stories regularly appeared throughout the '40s and '50s in Vanity Fair, Redbook, the Saturday Evening Post, and Cosmopolitan.
Philip Wylie (1902 - 1971) Philip Gordon Wylie was born in Massachusetts in 1902, the son of a Presbyterian minister and the novelist Edna Edwards, who died when he was five. He attended Princeton University and, although he wrote regularly for The Princetonian and had published his first book by the time he left, his academic record was ...
Aug 13, 2021 · The best-selling midcentury author was born in 1902 to Presbyterian minister Edmund Wylie and novelist Edna Edwards Wylie, who died giving birth to a sibling when Philip was five.
