Louis Kronenberger (1904–1980)
Author of Viking Book of Aphorisms: A Personal Selection
About the Author
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Works by Louis Kronenberger
Cavalcade of comedy; 21 brilliant comedies from Jonson and Wycherley to Thurber and Coward (1953) — Editor — 97 copies
A mania for magnificence 3 copies
An eighteenth century miscellany 3 copies
Grand Right and Left 2 copies
Best Plays of 1959-1960 1 copy
King's and Desperate Men 1 copy
Best Plays of 1960-1961 1 copy
Best Plays of 1954-1955 1 copy
Best Plays of 1958-1959 1 copy
Best Plays of 1957-1958 1 copy
Best Plays of 1956-1957 1 copy
Best Plays of 1955-1956 1 copy
The Grand Manner 1 copy
Best Plays of 1953-1954 1 copy
Best Plays of 1952-1953 1 copy
Arms and the Man 1 copy
Associated Works
Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy [Norton Critical Edition] (1973) — Contributor — 269 copies
Four Plays: Candida, Cæsar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Heartbreak house (1953) — Introduction — 169 copies
High Moment: Stories of Supreme Crises in the Lives of Great Men — Contributor — 2 copies
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Kronenberger, Louis
- Birthdate
- 1904-12-09
- Date of death
- 1980-04-30
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
New York, New York, USA
Brookline, Massachusetts, USA - Education
- University of Cincinnati
- Occupations
- journalist
drama critic
professor
author - Organizations
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1951)
Time Magazine
PM
Brandeis University
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Reviews
Atlantic Brief Lives: a biographical companion to… by Louis Kronenberger
Brief biographical sketches of artists, authors, composers, etc., and accompanying essays.
A unique reference book, this volume contains more than a thousand biographies of famous writers and artists from Western culture. Accompanying more than two hundred of the entries are biographical essays that provide more details about each artist.
This is a reference book so I did not read it cover to cover. I came to it by way of a recommendation by Jacques Barzun to browse rather than read this volume.
Of course, W. H. Auden gets all the attention and I don't begrudge him that but Louis Kronenberger should get mention as a coauthor. And who is Louis Kronenberger? From Wikipedia he appears to be another person we should all be more familiar with.
This is the kind of book that has been obviated by the internet. I keep a site called Brainy Quote bookmarked. It has about 200 quotes from one of my favorites, La Rochfoucaulde; this book only had thirty-eight. The book has single quotes from people I am not familiar with such as Edmond About and George William Russell; Brainy Quote had numerous quotes from each of them. Then there is the tactile aspect of paper versus digital: I prefer paper for a straightforward cover-to-cover read but when it comes to flipping around from index to content and back again digital is better.… (more)
Of course, W. H. Auden gets all the attention and I don't begrudge him that but Louis Kronenberger should get mention as a coauthor. And who is Louis Kronenberger? From Wikipedia he appears to be another person we should all be more familiar with.
This is the kind of book that has been obviated by the internet. I keep a site called Brainy Quote bookmarked. It has about 200 quotes from one of my favorites, La Rochfoucaulde; this book only had thirty-eight. The book has single quotes from people I am not familiar with such as Edmond About and George William Russell; Brainy Quote had numerous quotes from each of them. Then there is the tactile aspect of paper versus digital: I prefer paper for a straightforward cover-to-cover read but when it comes to flipping around from index to content and back again digital is better.… (more)
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