William Vaughn Moody

William Vaughn Moody

Portrait of William Vaughn Moody, by De W.C. Ward.
Born (1869-07-08)July 8, 1869
Spencer, Indiana
Died October 17, 1910(1910-10-17) (aged 41)
Colorado Springs
Occupation Dramatist, poet
Nationality American

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William Vaughn Moody (July 8, 1869 – October 17, 1910) was an American dramatist and poet. Author of The Great Divide, first presented under the title of The Sabine Woman at the Garrick Theatre in Chicago on April 12, 1906. Moody's poetic dramas included The Masque of Judgment (1900), The Fire Bringer (1904), and The Death of Eve (left undone at his death).

Biography

Born at Spencer, Indiana, his parents died while he was a boy, and he had to work to help support himself while he completed his education. After attending New Albany High School he went on to Harvard University, where he was awarded the George B. Sohier Prize for literature and earned an A.B. in 1893 and an A.M. in 1894.

He taught English at Harvard and Radcliffe until 1895, when he went to Chicago where he was an instructor at the University of Chicago, and from 1901 to 1907 assistant professor of English and rhetoric. He received the degree of Litt.D. from Yale in 1908, and was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Moody died from brain cancer at Colorado Springs at the age of 41.

Works

The Great Divide, 1970 revival, act II, directed by Keith Fowler, scene design by Sandro La Ferla, for the revival by the Virginia Museum Theater, Richmond, 1970. From left, Bill Camp, James Kirkland, Ken Letner, Gene Snow.)[1]
Tribute to W.V. Moody in The Harvard Monthly Vol 51 (1910)

His complete works, including The Death of Eve, a fragment of the third member of the proposed trilogy mentioned above, were edited with an introduction by John M. Manly (1912).[2]

See also

Notes

  1. "Polly Untermeyer, "'Great Divide' Gives Museum Drama Rotation," Petersburg Progress-Index, March 12, 1970
  2. Boswell, Jeanetta (1987). Spokesman for the Minority: A Bibliography of Sidney Lanier, William Vaughn Moody, Henry Timrod, Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, and Jones Very, with Selective Annotations. Rowman & Littlefield.

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