HUNEKER, James Gibbons

Educated in music in Paris, initially a music critic for Philadelphia and New York newspapers, Huneker became a distinguished commentator on all of the arts, the polyartistic critic who popularized European avant-gardes on these alien shores from the 1880s until his premature death. Huneker wrote books about music, literature, and drama, in addition to short fictions and a novel. His two-volume autobiography, Steeplejack (1920), is about enthusiastic living with all the arts. He became an immediate...