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Edmund Wilson,
ca. 1936. NYPL. |
Journalist, critic, and
Vanity Fair and
New Republic editor
Edmund "Bunny" Wilson was born today in Red Bank, NJ, in 1895. He died in 1972. In the mystery community he is most notorious for his cranky
New Yorker column "
Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?" (1945) in which he seems to trash all mysteries except for Raymond Chandler's
Farewell, My Lovely. Protesters of Wilson's incendiary opinions on the mystery included Jacques Barzun. George Demko discusses Wilson's antimystery pieces
here; Edward Champion looks at Wilson's columns
here and concludes, "Wilson read mysteries for the wrong reasons."
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