Edmund Wilson

The American critic and author Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) is considered one of the most important literary critics and a model "public intellectual," whose work reflects the influence of Marxist theory and psychoanalysis. This "brilliant critic," as Cyril Connolly called him, is the author of works such as "Axel's Castle," "To the Finland Station," "The Wound and the Bow," and "The American Earthquake," which received rave reviews, including the collection "Memoirs of Hecate County," featuring the novella "The Myth of Imogene" ("Princess with the Golden Hair"). He worked as a journalist, managing editor of "Vanity Fair," editor of "New Republic," and literary critic for "The New Yorker."