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John Hall Wheelock
1886–1978
A lyrical American poet and influential editor, he wrote deeply felt poems about nature, love, and society while helping shape twentieth-century literary publishing. His long career at Charles Scribner’s Sons connected him with major writers and helped launch the work of many emerging poets.
2 Audiobooks
The black panther : A book of poems
by John Hall Wheelock
The bright doom : A book of poems
by John Hall Wheelock
About the author
Born in Far Rockaway, New York, in 1886, John Hall Wheelock grew up in Manhattan and studied at Harvard, where he edited The Harvard Monthly and graduated as class poet. His first book, Verses by Two Undergraduates, was written with his friend Van Wyck Brooks, while The Human Fantasy (1911) established his reputation as a poet.
Wheelock spent much of his professional life at Charles Scribner’s Sons, rising from clerk to senior editor and eventually serving as editor in chief. He created the Poets of Today series, which introduced readers to several important new poets. Over a career spanning more than seven decades, he published fourteen volumes of poetry, including The Black Panther, The Gardener, and This Blessed Earth: New and Selected Poems. He died in New York in 1978.