Author talk:Waldo Ralph Browne

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Name: Waldo Ralph Browne
Birth Year: 1876
Death Year: 1954
Source:

• American Authors and Books. 1640 to the present day. Third revised edition. By W.J. Burke and Will D. Howe. Revised by Irving Weiss and Anne Weiss. New York: Crown Publishers, 1972. (AmAu&B)
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• Childhood in Poetry. A catalogue, with biographical and critical annotations, of the books of English and American poets comprising the Shaw Childhood in Poetry Collection in the Library of the Florida State University. Third Supplement. By John Mackay Shaw. Detroit: Gale Research, 1980. (ChhPo S3)
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Published

• New York [NY] Times 27 Jan 1954

WARWICK, N.Y., Jan. 26-Waldo R. Browne, editor and author, died today in St. Francis Hospital after a brief Illness at the age of 78.

Mr. Browne was born near St. Joseph, Mich. He began is career at the age of 15 as a printer's devil in the Chicago offices of the Dial, a leading journal of literary criticism founded and edited by his father, Francis Fisher Browne. Later, In association with his father, he became managing editor of the peridoical, and then for several years until 1914 was its editor in Chief. After hs resignation, Mr. Browne received an honarary doctor of letters degree from Oberlin College.

In 1917-18 he was literary editor of the Nation, published in New York, and from 1935 to 1939, he served on the central editorial staff of the Federal Writers' Project in Washington.

Mr. Brown was the author of "Altgeld of Illinois" published in 1924. Last year he rewrote the hook under a new title, "Brave as the Truth: a Biography of John Peter Altgeld." He was the author also of "Chronicles of an American Home." He had compiled or edited numerous other books, including "What's What in the Labor Movement: A Dictionary of Labor Affairs and Labor Terminology" and "Leviathan in Crisis: An International Symposium on the State."

His wife, the former Susanna Avery Shanklin, died in 1930.

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Waldo Ralph Browne
1876–1954
Birth 2 FEB 1876 • Michigan
Death 26 JAN 1954 • Warwick, Orange, New York

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 Waldo Ralph Browne
Birth 2 Feb 1876
St. Joseph County, Michigan, USA
Death 26 Jan 1954 (aged 77)
Warwick, Orange County, New York, USA
Burial Cremated, Ashes given to family or friend
Memorial ID 171440975