WRITER

Lionel Trilling

1905 - 1975

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Lionel Mordecai Trilling (July 4, 1905 – November 5, 1975) was an American literary critic, short story writer, essayist, and teacher. He was one of the leading U.S. critics of the 20th century who analyzed the contemporary cultural, social, and political implications of literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lionel Trilling has received more than 406,264 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Lionel Trilling is the 6,496th most popular writer, the 12,341st most popular biography from United States and the 899th most popular American Writer.

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Notable Works

The experience of literature
Literature, Collections, Anthologies
The liberal imagination
Addresses, essays, lectures, History and criticism, Literature
Beyond culture
History and criticism, Modern Literature, Literature and society
Fifty Best American Short Stories
The Best [American] Short Stories [click to find all works in series], Best American Series ®, Short Stories
Contents: Survivors / Elsie Singmaster -- Lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser -- Golden honeymoon / Ring W. Lardner -- I'm a fool / Sherwood Anderson -- My old man / Ernest Hemingway -- Telephone call / Dorothy Parker -- Double birthday / Willa Cather -- Faithful wife / Morley Callaghan -- Little wife / William March -- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald-- How beautiful with shoes / Wilbur Daniel Steele -- Resurrection of a life / William Saroyan -- Only the dead know Brooklyn / Thomas Wolfe -- Life in the day of a writer / Tess Slesinger -- Iron City / Lovell Thompson -- Christ in concrete / Pietro Di Donato -- Chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck -- Bright and morning star / Richard Wright -- Hand upon the waters / William Faulkner -- Net / Robert M. Coates -- Nothing ever breaks except the heart / Kay Boyle -- Search through the streets of the city / Irwin Shaw -- Who lived and died believing / Nancy Hale -- Peach stone / Paul Horgan -- Dawn of remembered spring / Jesse Stuart -- Catbird seat / James Thurber -- Of this time, of that place / Lionel Trilling -- Wind and the snow of winter / Walter Van Tilburg Clark -- Enormous radio / John Cheever -- Children are bored on Sunday / Jean Stafford -- NRACP / George P. Elliott -- In Greenwich there are many gravelled walks / Hortense Calisher -- Other foot / Ray Bradbury -- Three players of a summer game / Tennessee Williams -- Mother's tale / James Agee -- Magic barrel / Bernard Malamud -- Circle in the fire / Flannery O'Connor -- First flower / Augusta Wallace Lyons -- Contest for Aaron Gold / Philip Roth -- One ordinary day, with peanuts / Shirley Jackson -- To the wilderness I wander / Frank Butler -- Ledge / Lawrence Sargent Hall -- This morning, this evening, so soon / James Baldwin -- Tell me a riddle / Tillie Olsen -- Old army game / George Garrett -- Pigeon feathers / John Updike -- Sound of a drunken drummer / H.W. Blattner -- Keyhole eye / John Stewart Carter -- Long day's dying / William Eastlake -- Upon the sweeping flood / Joyce Carol Oates.
The middle of the journey
Intellectuals, Fiction in English, Liberalism
E.M. Forster
Criticism and interpretation, Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970, Festivals

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lionel Trilling ranks 6,496 out of 7,302Before him are Véronique Tadjo, Tracy Hickman, João W. Nery, Sue Monk Kidd, Felicia Hemans, and William Kennedy. After him are Lidija Dimkovska, Vachel Lindsay, Ogden Nash, John Arden, Jasper Fforde, and Christopher Moore.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Lionel Trilling ranks 395Before him are Marvin Stalder, Thomas Gomez, Pedro Quartucci, Hans Ziglarski, Frank Faylen, and Eddie "Rochester" Anderson. After him are Agnes de Mille, Fidel LaBarba, Stanley Kunitz, Bob Wills, Ilka Chase, and Bosley Crowther. Among people deceased in 1975, Lionel Trilling ranks 267Before him are Rudi Ball, Hans Ziglarski, Ian Hunter, Marjorie Main, Larry Parks, and Bram Fischer. After him are Bob Wills, Padmaja Naidu, Boy Charlton, and Bruno Müller.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lionel Trilling ranks 12,341 out of 20,380Before him are Sue Monk Kidd (1948), Cheyenne Jackson (1975), Harry Hines Woodring (1887), Chris Webber (1973), Carole Cook (1924), and William Kennedy (1928). After him are Ruth Clifford (1900), Geoffrey Blake (1962), Milburn Stone (1904), Allen Covert (1964), Vachel Lindsay (1879), and Ogden Nash (1902).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Lionel Trilling ranks 899Before him are Beverly Cleary (1916), Marc Connelly (1890), Norman Podhoretz (1930), Tracy Hickman (1955), Sue Monk Kidd (1948), and William Kennedy (1928). After him are Vachel Lindsay (1879), Ogden Nash (1902), Christopher Moore (1957), Countee Cullen (1903), Richelle Mead (1976), and Alice Sebold (1963).