Horatio Sheafe Krans
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Horatio Sheafe Krans, Ph.D. (b. 1872, Boston - d. July 28, 1952, Asheville, North Carolina) was an American author and editor, and educated at Columbia (A.B., 1894; Ph. D., 1903).
His work consisted of employment connected with magazines and reviews. He edited the Lincoln Tribute Book (1909), English Love poems (1909), The Lost Art of Conversation (1910) and was an associate editor of The World's Wit and Humor (ten volumes, 1906). In 1914 he served as associate editor of the New International Yearbook.
He wrote:
- Irish Life in Irish Fiction (1903)
- William Butler Yeats and the Irish Literary Revival (1904)
- Oliver Goldsmith, a Critical Biography (1907)
He and his wife (1876-1960) lived in Paris for a time until fleeing at the start of the German occupation. They then moved to New York City and finally to Asheville, North Carolina, where Krans died, around the age of 80.
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