Writer and editor who won the 1933 Pulitzer Prize for history.
AGAR, Herbert Sebastian, editor and author, was born at New Rochelle, N.Y., Sept. 29, 1897, son of John Giraud and Agnes Louise (Mac- donough) Agar. His father was a lawyer. After receiving his preparatory education at the New- man school, Lakewood, N.J., he attended Colum- bia university, where he was graduated A.B. in 1919. Subsequently he did graduate work at Princeton university, from which he received the degrees of A.M. in 1920 and Ph.D. in 1922. Dur- ing 1923-28 he taught at the Hun school, Prince- ton, N.J., and for two years thereafter was en- gaged in literary work in London. He was London correspondent of the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Louisville Times during 1930-34 and literary editor of the English Review of London during 1931-34. From 1935 to 1939 he wrote a syndicated daily newspaper column under the title "Time and Tide." Since 1940 he has been editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal. Mr. Agar is the author of "Fire and Sleet and Can- dlelight," verse, with Willis Fisher and Eleanor Carroll Chilton, and "Milton and Plato" (1928); "The Garment of Praise," with Eleanor Carroll Chilton (1929); "Bread and Circuses" (1930); "The Defeat of Baudelaire," a translation (1932); "The People's Choice" (1933); "Land of the Free" (1935); "What is America?" (1936); "Pursuit of Happiness" (1938), and "Beyond German Vic- tory," with Helen Hill (1940). "The People's Choice" was awarded the Pulitzer prize for Ameri- can history. He was joint editor with Allen Tate of the symposium, "Who Owns America?" (1936). During American participation in the first World war he was a seaman and later chief quartermas- ter in the U.S. naval reserve. Following the out- break of the second World war he attracted na- tional attention by his forthright advocacy of the entrance of the United States into the struggle against Fascism. An honorary Litt.D. degree was conferred on him by Southwestern, Memphis, Tenn., in 1936 and an LL.D. by Boston university in 1941. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the National Arts, Princeton and Century clubs of New York city, the National Press Club of Wash- ington, D.C., and the Pendennis, River Valley and Wynn Stay clubs of Louisville. He has been mar- ried twice: (1) in New York city, Feb. 6, 1918, to Adeline, daughter of William Berryman Scott (q.v.), Blair professor of geology at Princeton university, by whom he had two children: William Scott and Agnes Agar; they were divorced in 1933; (2) in London, England, Apr. 11, 1933, to Eleanor Carroll, daughter of William Edwin Chilton (q.v.), U.S. senator from West Virginia.
AGAR, Herbert Sebastian, editor and author, was born at New Rochelle, N.Y., Sept. 29, 1897, son of John Giraud and Agnes Louise (Mac- donough) Agar. His father was a lawyer. After receiving his preparatory education at the New- man school, Lakewood, N.J., he attended Colum- bia university, where he was graduated A.B. in 1919. Subsequently he did graduate work at Princeton university, from which he received the degrees of A.M. in 1920 and Ph.D. in 1922. Dur- ing 1923-28 he taught at the Hun school, Prince- ton, N.J., and for two years thereafter was en- gaged in literary work in London. He was London correspondent of the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Louisville Times during 1930-34 and literary editor of the English Review of London during 1931-34. From 1935 to 1939 he wrote a syndicated daily newspaper column under the title "Time and Tide." Since 1940 he has been editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal. Mr. Agar is the author of "Fire and Sleet and Can- dlelight," verse, with Willis Fisher and Eleanor Carroll Chilton, and "Milton and Plato" (1928); "The Garment of Praise," with Eleanor Carroll Chilton (1929); "Bread and Circuses" (1930); "The Defeat of Baudelaire," a translation (1932); "The People's Choice" (1933); "Land of the Free" (1935); "What is America?" (1936); "Pursuit of Happiness" (1938), and "Beyond German Vic- tory," with Helen Hill (1940). "The People's Choice" was awarded the Pulitzer prize for Ameri- can history. He was joint editor with Allen Tate of the symposium, "Who Owns America?" (1936). During American participation in the first World war he was a seaman and later chief quartermas- ter in the U.S. naval reserve. Following the out- break of the second World war he attracted na- tional attention by his forthright advocacy of the entrance of the United States into the struggle against Fascism. An honorary Litt.D. degree was conferred on him by Southwestern, Memphis, Tenn., in 1936 and an LL.D. by Boston university in 1941. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the National Arts, Princeton and Century clubs of New York city, the National Press Club of Wash- ington, D.C., and the Pendennis, River Valley and Wynn Stay clubs of Louisville. He has been mar- ried twice: (1) in New York city, Feb. 6, 1918, to Adeline, daughter of William Berryman Scott (q.v.), Blair professor of geology at Princeton university, by whom he had two children: William Scott and Agnes Agar; they were divorced in 1933; (2) in London, England, Apr. 11, 1933, to Eleanor Carroll, daughter of William Edwin Chilton (q.v.), U.S. senator from West Virginia.
Writer and editor who won the 1933 Pulitzer Prize for history.
AGAR, Herbert Sebastian, editor and author, was born at New Rochelle, N.Y., Sept. 29, 1897, son of John Giraud and Agnes Louise (Mac- donough) Agar. His father was a lawyer. After receiving his preparatory education at the New- man school, Lakewood, N.J., he attended Colum- bia university, where he was graduated A.B. in 1919. Subsequently he did graduate work at Princeton university, from which he received the degrees of A.M. in 1920 and Ph.D. in 1922. Dur- ing 1923-28 he taught at the Hun school, Prince- ton, N.J., and for two years thereafter was en- gaged in literary work in London. He was London correspondent of the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Louisville Times during 1930-34 and literary editor of the English Review of London during 1931-34. From 1935 to 1939 he wrote a syndicated daily newspaper column under the title "Time and Tide." Since 1940 he has been editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal. Mr. Agar is the author of "Fire and Sleet and Can- dlelight," verse, with Willis Fisher and Eleanor Carroll Chilton, and "Milton and Plato" (1928); "The Garment of Praise," with Eleanor Carroll Chilton (1929); "Bread and Circuses" (1930); "The Defeat of Baudelaire," a translation (1932); "The People's Choice" (1933); "Land of the Free" (1935); "What is America?" (1936); "Pursuit of Happiness" (1938), and "Beyond German Vic- tory," with Helen Hill (1940). "The People's Choice" was awarded the Pulitzer prize for Ameri- can history. He was joint editor with Allen Tate of the symposium, "Who Owns America?" (1936). During American participation in the first World war he was a seaman and later chief quartermas- ter in the U.S. naval reserve. Following the out- break of the second World war he attracted na- tional attention by his forthright advocacy of the entrance of the United States into the struggle against Fascism. An honorary Litt.D. degree was conferred on him by Southwestern, Memphis, Tenn., in 1936 and an LL.D. by Boston university in 1941. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the National Arts, Princeton and Century clubs of New York city, the National Press Club of Wash- ington, D.C., and the Pendennis, River Valley and Wynn Stay clubs of Louisville. He has been mar- ried twice: (1) in New York city, Feb. 6, 1918, to Adeline, daughter of William Berryman Scott (q.v.), Blair professor of geology at Princeton university, by whom he had two children: William Scott and Agnes Agar; they were divorced in 1933; (2) in London, England, Apr. 11, 1933, to Eleanor Carroll, daughter of William Edwin Chilton (q.v.), U.S. senator from West Virginia.
AGAR, Herbert Sebastian, editor and author, was born at New Rochelle, N.Y., Sept. 29, 1897, son of John Giraud and Agnes Louise (Mac- donough) Agar. His father was a lawyer. After receiving his preparatory education at the New- man school, Lakewood, N.J., he attended Colum- bia university, where he was graduated A.B. in 1919. Subsequently he did graduate work at Princeton university, from which he received the degrees of A.M. in 1920 and Ph.D. in 1922. Dur- ing 1923-28 he taught at the Hun school, Prince- ton, N.J., and for two years thereafter was en- gaged in literary work in London. He was London correspondent of the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Louisville Times during 1930-34 and literary editor of the English Review of London during 1931-34. From 1935 to 1939 he wrote a syndicated daily newspaper column under the title "Time and Tide." Since 1940 he has been editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal. Mr. Agar is the author of "Fire and Sleet and Can- dlelight," verse, with Willis Fisher and Eleanor Carroll Chilton, and "Milton and Plato" (1928); "The Garment of Praise," with Eleanor Carroll Chilton (1929); "Bread and Circuses" (1930); "The Defeat of Baudelaire," a translation (1932); "The People's Choice" (1933); "Land of the Free" (1935); "What is America?" (1936); "Pursuit of Happiness" (1938), and "Beyond German Vic- tory," with Helen Hill (1940). "The People's Choice" was awarded the Pulitzer prize for Ameri- can history. He was joint editor with Allen Tate of the symposium, "Who Owns America?" (1936). During American participation in the first World war he was a seaman and later chief quartermas- ter in the U.S. naval reserve. Following the out- break of the second World war he attracted na- tional attention by his forthright advocacy of the entrance of the United States into the struggle against Fascism. An honorary Litt.D. degree was conferred on him by Southwestern, Memphis, Tenn., in 1936 and an LL.D. by Boston university in 1941. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the National Arts, Princeton and Century clubs of New York city, the National Press Club of Wash- ington, D.C., and the Pendennis, River Valley and Wynn Stay clubs of Louisville. He has been mar- ried twice: (1) in New York city, Feb. 6, 1918, to Adeline, daughter of William Berryman Scott (q.v.), Blair professor of geology at Princeton university, by whom he had two children: William Scott and Agnes Agar; they were divorced in 1933; (2) in London, England, Apr. 11, 1933, to Eleanor Carroll, daughter of William Edwin Chilton (q.v.), U.S. senator from West Virginia.
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