Historians Van Wyck Brooks

Van Wyck Brooks

Living place: New Jersey

Birthday: 16-2-1886

Global rank: #80181

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Who is Historians Van Wyck Brooks?
American historian and critic who wrote about Mark Twain. In 1936, he won the 2nd National Book Prize for Non-Fiction for his novel The Flower of New England.
In 1937, he won the Pulitzer Prize in history.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He studied at Harvard University, where he published his first book: . Sentences of two college students

Family life info

His parents are Sally and Charles Brook.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Historians Van Wyck Brooks?
He attended and graduated from Harvard University when Wendy Liebman did her research at Harvard Medical School.

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When was Historians Van Wyck Brooks born?
Van Wyck Brooks was born in 16-2-1886, death year is , at the age of 138.
Where is Historians Van Wyck Brooks's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Van Wyck Brooks was born in New Jersey, . is a Historians, whose Zodiac is Aquarius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Dog. Van Wyck Brooks's global rank is 80181 and whose rank is 48 in list of famous Historians.
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Events in 1886 and 16-2

Birthday Van Wyck Brooks (16-2) in history

  • Day 16-2 year 1804: U.S. frigate Philadelphia, captured and held by Barbary pirates at Tripoli during the Tripolitan War, was set fire to and destroyed by a small group of men led by Stephen Decatur.
  • Day 16-2 year 1918: Lithuania proclaimed its independence from Russia.
  • Day 16-2 year 1923: The tomb of King Tutankhamen, discovered in 1922, was opened.
  • Day 16-2 year 1937: Nylon was patented.
  • Day 16-2 year 1959: Fidel Castro became the leader of Cuba after having ousted the right-wing dictator Fulgencio Batista.
  • Day 16-2 year 1968: The country's first 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville, Ala.
  • Day 16-2 year 1999: Turkish commandos captured Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan in Kenya, sparking seizures of embassies in Europe by Kurds.
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