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Alexander Woollcott

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Noun1.Alexander WoollcottAlexander Woollcott - United States drama critic and journalist (1887-1943)


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The Algonquin became famous in the 1920s as the meeting place of The Vicious Circle--or Algonquin Round Table--comprising literary worthies such as Dorothy Parker, Alexander Woollcott and Heywood Broun.
Labeled "the revolting playwrights" by Alexander Woollcott,(4) the founders of the New Playwrights' were John Dos Passos, John Howard Lawson, Em Jo Basshe, Francis Edward Faragoh, and Gold himself.
Although the purveyors of interwar middlebrow culture that Rubin touches upon-the aforementioned, as well as Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Mortimer Adler, Alexander Woollcott, and Mark Van Doren-are, as Rubin notes, victims" of canon formation, they can also be seen as canonizers themselves.
 
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