Louis Kronenberger  

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Louis Kronenberger (December 9, 1904 - April 30, 1980) was an American literary critic (longest with Time, (1938-1961), novelist, and biographer who wrote extensively on drama and the 18th century.

Works

In his later years, Kronenberger wrote biographies, including one of John Wilkes and another of Oscar Wilde.

Books:

• The Grand Manner (1929)
• Kings and Desperate Men: Life in Eighteenth-Century England (1942)
• Grand Right and Left (1952)
• The Thread of Laughter: Chapters on English Stage Comedy from Jonson to Maugham (1952)
• Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life (1954)
• Republic of Letters: Essays on Various Writers (1955)
• Marlborough's Duchess: A Study in Worldliness (1958)
• Madame De Lafayette: The Story of a Patriot's Wife (1959)
• A Month of Sundays (1961)
• The Viking Book of Aphorisms (1962)
• Great World: Portraits and Scenes from Greville's Memoirs, 1814-1860 (1963)
• The Cart and the Horse (1964)
• The Polished Surface: Essays in the Literature of Worldliness (1969)
• The Cutting Edge: A Collection of Witty Insults and Wicked Retorts, of Polished Snubs and Homicidal Repartee (1970)
• No Whippings, No Gold Watches (1970) memoirs
• A Mania for Magnificence (1972)
• Animal, Vegetable, Mineral (1972)
• The Last Word: Portraits of Fourteen Master Aphorists (1972)
• Extraordinary Mr. Wilkes: His Life and Times (1974)
• Oscar Wilde (1976)

Editing:

• An Anthology of Light Verse (1935)
• An Eighteenth Century Miscellany (1936)
• Reader's Companion (1945) editor
• The Pleasure of Their Company: An Anthology of Civilized Writing (1946)
• The Indispensable Johnson and Boswell (1950)
• Alexander Pope: Selected Works (1951)
• Cavalcade of Comedy (1953)
• George Bernard Shaw : A Critical Survey (1953) * The Portable Johnson and Boswell (1955)
• The Maxims of La Rochefoucauld (1959)
• Novelists on Novelists (1962) editor
• Quality: Its Image in the Arts (1969)
• Brief Lives: a Biographical Companion to the Arts (1971)

Books edited with others:

• The Faber Book of Aphorisms (1964) with W. H. Auden

Plays written:

• The Heavenly Twins (1955)

Plays translated, adapted:

• Mademoiselle Colombe by Jean Anouilh (New York: Coward-McCann, 1954) translated and adapted from the original Colombe (1951)

Plays edited:

• Best Plays series (1952-1961):
  • The Best Plays of 1952-1953, Burns Mantle Yearbook (1953)
  • The Best Plays of 1953-1954 (1954)
  • The Best Plays of 1954-1955 (1955)
  • The Best Plays of 1955-1956 (1956)
  • The Best Plays of 1956-1957 (1957)
  • The Best Plays of 1957-1958 (1958)
  • The Best Plays of 1958-1959 (1959)
  • The Best Plays of 1959-1960 (1960)
  • The Best Plays of 1960-1961 (1961)
• Four Plays by Bernard Shaw (1953)
• Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Six Plays (1964)

Plays edited with others:

• The Beggar's Opera by John Gay, A Faithful Reproduction of the 1729 Edition (1961) with Max Goberman
• Ibsen (1977) with Harold Clurman