ATKINSON, BROOKS. Critic and author; b. Melrose, Massachusetts, ; d. Hunts-ville, Alabama, . After graduating from Harvard in 1917, Atkinson taught English at Dartmouth, worked for a short time on the Springfield Daily News, and joined the Boston Evening Transcript as a police reporter and later became the assistant to the drama critic.
In 1922 he found his way to New York and joined the New York Times as the Sunday Book Review editor. In 1925 the...