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Ernest Boyd
From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Date: 20080415
Author:
Ernest Boyd 1887-1946, American critic and author, b. Dubin, Ireland. In the British consular service, he resigned in 1920 and settled in New York City, where he became an important literary figure. He contributed editorials to periodicals, wrote criticism on European literature, and translated modern French and German authors. His works include
Contemporary Drama of Ireland
(1917),
Portraits, Real and Imaginary
(1924),
H. L. Mencken
(1925),
Guy de Maupassant
(1926), and
Literary Blasphemies
(1927). He was editor and translator of the complete works of Guy de Maupassant.
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