Lyon

1933 · ref. 96380 — 1933. 1933. Very good. - A 5-1/2 inch high by 3-1/2 inch wide glossy press photo is inscribed signed and dated by Phelps: "Yours Wm Lyon Phelps / 1933". The autograph is very slightly smudged due to the glossy quality of the paper. The photo appears to have been cut from a larger sheet. The date of the photo itself Jan. 3 1933 is penciled in an undetermined hand on the verso. There are 2 tape marks on the verso from having once been mounted. Very good. William Lyon Phelps 1865-1943 was an American author critic and scholar. He earned his Ph.D. from Yale in 1891 and after a year teaching at Harvard taught in the English Department at Yale until his retirement in 1933. He was Yale University Lampson Professor of English Literature and taught the first American university course on the modern novel. He had a radio show wrote a daily syndicated newspaper column lectured frequently and published numerous books and articles. 1933. unknown