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Encyclopedia > William Lyon Phelps

William Lyon Phelps (2 January 1865 - 21 August 1943) was an American author, critic and scholar. Phelps gained a B.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University and an M.A. from Harvard University, where he went on to teach for just one year before returning to Yale to hold a position in the English department for 41 years. From 1941 to 1943 he was the director of the Hall of Fame for Great Americans. is the 2nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1865 (MDCCCLXV) is a common year starting on Sunday. ... is the 233rd day of the year (234th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A scholar is either a student or someone who has achieved a mastery of some academic discipline, perhaps receiving financial support through a scholarship. ... “Yale” redirects here. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... The Hall of Fame for Great Americans — the original Hall of Fame[1] — is a (secular) national shrine on the grounds of the Bronx Community College of the City University of New York. ...


His works include;

  • Essays on Modern Novelists (1910),
  • Advance of the English Novel (1916),
  • Essays on Modern Dramatists (1921-1922),
  • As I Like It (1923),
  • Autobiography with Letters (1939),
  • Marriage (1940).

External links

  • Works by William Lyon Phelps at Project Gutenberg
  • "Human Nature in the Bible", by William Lyon Phelps, 1923.

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