Edmund Fuller
Edmund Maybank Fuller (3 March 1914 – 29 January 2001) was an American
Career
Fuller directed plays at
Early in his career Fuller served for eight years as editor-in-chief at Crown Publishers, where he compiled an anthology of the law in literature[7] and large collections of quotations, anecdotes, epigrams, and, in collaboration with Hiram Haydn, book digests.[8] In 1948 he left the metropolis for 264 acres near Shoreham, Vermont, where he hoped to sustain his family through farming combined with free-lance consulting with authors and publishers.[9] That effort lasted only five years,[10] during which in addition to the books on Stein and Vermont he wrote one on George Bernard Shaw aimed at an audience of students and the general public[11] and put together another Crown anthology, Mutiny![12] drawing on historical accounts ranging in date from Livy to Chiang Kai-shek and including his own brief piece, "Nat Turner the Prophet."[13]
In 1953 he accepted a faculty appointment at the
From 1955 through 1968 he made selections from, or abridged reading versions of, long classics that were staples in the curriculum: novels by
The bulk of Fuller's work as a critic consists of book reviews in the
He issued a selection of John Donne's sermons, edited and abridged, believing that "much in Donne's thought and expression speaks with extraordinary directness and aptness to our own condition today."[21] Affirmations of God and Man: Writings for Modern Dialogue[22] grew out of many conversations about religion that Fuller had with students at his own school and on the university lecture circuit. It consists of nearly 250 extracts from a wide array of authors, ancient to contemporary and quite varied in religious orientation, arranged thematically to spark discussion on issues central to theological inquiry. Finally, after retiring and moving to Chapel Hill, N. C., where his friend from The Wall Street Journal days, Vermont C. Royster, was teaching journalism, Fuller assembled about a hundred of Royster's prize-winning columns that he thought deserved continued attention beyond what newspapers generally afford.[23]
References
- ^ Edmund Fuller, 86, Novelist and Historian , The New York Times, February 3, 2001 (p. B7).
- ^ A Pageant of the Theatre (1941), rev. ed. New York: Crowell, 1965.
- ^ John Milton, New York and London: Harper & Bros., 1944; rpt. London: Gollancz, 1969.
- ^ New York and London: Harper & Brothers.
- ^ Saul Carson, "Negro's Apotheosis," New York Times Book Review, 3 November 1946 (p. 7).
- ^ Book Review Digest 1950, p. 861.
- ^ Amicus Curiae (pseud.), Law in Action, New York: Crown, 1947.
- ^ 1941, 1942, 1943, and 1949 respectively (Contemporary Authors v. 79-80, p. 161).
- ^ "Edmund Fuller to Resign," The New York Times, 16 March 1948 (p. 25).
- ^ Fuller, Successful Calamity: A Writer's Follies on a Vermont Farm (New York: Random House, 1966).
- ^ George Bernard Shaw: Critic of Western Morale, New York and London: Scribner's, 1950.
- ^ Mutiny! Being Accounts of Insurrections, Famous and Infamous, on Land and Sea, from the Days of the Caesars to Modern Times, New York: Crown Publishers, 1953.
- ^ Mutiny! pp. 316-17 (an extract from A Star Pointed North, 53-54).
- ^ The Christian Idea of Education: Papers and Discussions (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1958); Schools and Scholarship (Yale, 1962).
- ^ Fuller, "Varieties of Belief," The New York Times Book Review, 18 Dec. 1960, p. 12.
- ^ OCLC, WorldCat.
- ^ H. and E. Fischer, Chronicle of the Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction: Discussions, Decisions and Documents (Munich, 2012), pp. 301, 315, 319-20.
- ^ Books with Men behind Them (New York: Random House, 1962), 16.
- ^ Man in Modern Fiction (New York: Random House, 1958).
- ^ Charles Williams' All Hallows' Eve, New York: Seabury Press, 1967 (31 pages); "After the Moon Landings: A Further Report on the Christian Spaceman C. S. Lewis," in Myth, Allegory, and Gospel, ed. J. W. Montgomery (Minneapolis: Bethany Fellowship, 1974), 79-96; Edmund Fuller and Alan Jones, "An Affectionate and Muted Exchange anent Lewis," Studies in the Literary Imagination 14/2 (Fall 1981): 3-11.
- ^ The Showing Forth of Christ: Sermons of John Donne (New York: Harper & Row, 1964), ix.
- ^ New York: Association Press, 1967.
- ^ The Essential Royster : A Vermont Royster Reader, Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books, 1985.