Gilbert Seldes

Gilbert Vivian Seldes (January 3, 1893 – September 29, 1970) was an American writer and critic. His most famous work is The Stammering Century.¹

Works

Books

• The United States and the War (1917)
• The Seven Lively Arts (1924)
• The Square Emerald (1928) _{^{under pseudonym Foster Johns}}
• The Stammering Century (1928)
• The Victory Murders (1928) _{^{under pseudonym Foster Johns}}
• An Hour with the Movies and the Talkies (1929)
• The Movies and the Talkies (1929)
• The Wings of the Eagle (1929)
• Back from Utopia (1929)
• The Future of Drinking (1930)
• Against Revolution (1932)
• The Years of the Locust (1933)
• Mainland (1936)
• Movies for the Millions (1937)
• The Movies Come from America (1937)
• Your Money and Your Life (1938)
• Proclaim Liberty! (1942)
• The Portable Ring Lardner (1946)
• The Great Audience (1950)
• Writing for Television (1952)
• The Public Arts (1956)
• The Seven Lively Arts (1957) _{^{second edition}}
• The New Mass Media (1957)
• As in My Time (1958)

Plays

• The Wisecrackers (1925)
• Love of Three Oranges (1925)
• Lysistrata (A Modern Version) (1932)
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1936)
• Swinging the Dream (1939)

See also

• Gilbert Seldes quotes

External Links

• Gilbert Seldes Papers at the University of Pennsylvania (1920-1957)
• All of Seldes’ articles in The New Yorker
• Goodreads profile
• IMDb profile
• Internet Broadway Database profile
• WNYC profile
• Works on Internet Archive
• Works on Project Gutenberg

References

1. “Gilbert Seldes.” Wikipedia. Accessed July 29, 2020.