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Edmund Dresser Cressman
1889–1958
A scholar of literature and the humanities, he is best known today through early academic work preserved in public-domain editions. His surviving publications point to a thoughtful university writer interested in drama, criticism, and humanistic study.
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Humanistic Studies of the University of Kansas, Vol. 1
by De Witt Clinton Croissant, Edmund Dresser Cressman, Pearl Hogrefe, Arthur Mitchell
About the author
Born in 1889, Edmund Dresser Cressman was an American scholar and writer associated with the University of Kansas. Public records for his work show him as one of the contributors to Humanistic Studies of the University of Kansas, Vol. 1, a collection of academic essays that was later preserved by Project Gutenberg.
The available evidence suggests that his writing belonged to the world of early 20th-century university scholarship rather than popular fiction. In that volume, his work appears alongside other humanities scholars, reflecting an interest in literary and cultural analysis.
Cressman died in 1958. Although not much biographical detail is easy to confirm from widely available sources, the record of his publications shows him as part of the academic life that helped shape American humanistic study in his era.