Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1892, May 7 | Born, Glencoe, Ill. |
| 1915 | A.B., Yale University, New Haven, Conn. |
| 1916 | Married Ada Hitchcock |
| 1917-1919 | Served in United States Army |
| 1919 | LL.B., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. |
| 1920-1923 | Member of Boston, Mass., law firm, Choate, Hall and Stewart |
| 1923-1928 | Moved to Paris, France, devoting time to travel and literature |
| 1929-1938 | Editor, Fortune magazine |
| 1932 | Pulitzer Prize in poetry |
| 1939-1944 | Librarian of Congress |
| 1941-1942 | Director, Office of Facts and Figures, War Department |
| 1942-1943 | Assistant Director, Office of War Information, War Department |
| 1944 | American delegate, Conference of Allied Ministers of Education, London, England |
| 1944-1945 | Assistant secretary of state for cultural affairs |
| 1945 | Chairman, American delegation to London conference to draft constitution for UNESCO Participated in drafting of United Nations charter at the San Francisco Conference |
| 1946 | Chairman, American delegation to the First General Conference of UNESCO, Paris, France First American member, executive council of UNESCO |
| 1949-1962 | Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. |
| 1953 | Pulitzer Prize in poetry Bollingen Prize in poetry National Book Award in poetry |
| 1953-1956 | President, American Academy of Arts and Letters |
| 1959 | Pulitzer Prize in drama |
| 1963-1967 | Simpson lecturer, Amherst College, Amherst, Mass. |
| 1977 | Presidential Medal of Freedom |
| 1978 | National Medal for literature |
| 1982, Apr. 20 | Died, Boston, Mass. |