Ferris Greenslet

Ferris Lowell Greenslet (June 30, 1875, Glens Falls, New York – 1959, Boston) was an American editor and writer.

Biography

Greenslet graduated from Wesleyan University in 1897, and earned both an M.S and the Ph.D. by Columbia University in 1900. In 1901 he moved to Boston, where after working at the Boston Public Library and the "Boston Advertiser", he became an associate editor of the Atlantic Monthly, 1902-07. In 1910, he became a literary advisor and director of the Houghton Mifflin Co. publishing firm, continuing that employment for fifty-two years.

Ferris Greenslet wrote several biographies. He also wrote a collection of reminiscences, Under the Bridge published in 1943. He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on November 19, 1959

Bibliography

• 1900. Joseph Glanvill-A Study in English Thought and Letters of the Seventeenth Century.
• 1903. The Quest of the Holy Grail.
• 1911 (1903). Walter Pater.
• 1905. James Russell Lowell: His Life and Work.
• 1908. Life of Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
• 1943. Under the Bridge: An Autobiography. Houghton Mifflin.
• 1945 (with Charles P. Curtis, Jr.). The Practical Cogitator. Houghton Mifflin.
• 1946. The Lowells and Their Seven Worlds. Houghton Mifflin.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: 
• Elihu Vedder Collection, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.

External links

• University of California: Letter from Ferris Greenslet to John Muir, 1910 Jun 9.