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Alexander Humphreys Woollcott (January 19, 1887 – January 23, 1943) was an American drama critic and commentator for The New Yorker magazine, a member of the Algonquin Round Table, an occasional actor and playwright, and a prominent radio personality.
Died: January 23, 1943, New York City, New York (aged 56) Alexander Woollcott (born January 19, 1887, Phalanx, New Jersey, U.S.—died January 23, 1943, New York City, New York) was an American author, critic, and actor known for his acerbic wit.
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Nov 6, 2017 · After a few hours, on account of a cerebral hemorrhage, he passed away at New York’s Roosevelt Hospital at the age of 56. Trivia. This prominent person was born in an eighty-five room ramshackle building. Known as The Phalanx, this building witnessed a number of social experiments during the middle part of 1880s.
Jun 12, 2006 · As a friend said, after Woollcott's death, 'If I were in trouble, and Aleck Woollcott was still alive, he'd be the first one I would go to'. Sexuality
IT WAS about 1940 that Alexander Woollcott, sensing that his years left on earth were not many, retreated to his famous island place at Lake Bomoseen. “to set his house in order.”
Sep 1, 2007 · In a beautifully turned reminiscence of Alexander Woollcott published in 1943, and originally intended as a defense of that great critic against an ungenerous obituarist, Edmund Wilson managed...
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Alexander Woollcott, 1887–1943, American author and critic, b. Phalanx, N.J., grad. Hamilton College, 1909. Woollcott's flamboyant personality combined sharpness of wit with sentimentality. He was one of the best-known journalists of his time and exerted great influence on popular literary and theatrical tastes.
