Van Wyck Brooks

Van Wyck Brooks (1886-1963) was an American literary critic, biographer, and historian best known for his \"Makers and Finders\" series chronicling American literature from 1800-1915. A Harvard graduate, he authored influential works like The Ordeal of Mark Twain (1920) and won the Pulitzer Prize for History for The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865 (1936). Encyclopaedia