Hiram Collins Haydn (November 3, 1907 – December 2, 1973)Hiram Collins Haydn Papers: A Finding Aid to the Collection in the Library of Congress

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Manuscript Division, 2006, revised April 2010 (accessed 2016-05-13). was an American writer and editor. He was editor in chief at

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before leaving to help establish Atheneum Publishing.Harry Gilroy
"Hiram Haydn Leaves Atheneum To Become Harcourt Associate"
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'', August 15, 1964. He was also the editor of

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's literary journal, ''

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'', from 1944 to 1973.

Biography

Born in

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, Haydn graduated from

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in 1928, and later received a master's degree from Western Reserve University and a Ph.D. from

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in 1942. He married Rachel Hutchinson Norris in 1935, later divorced; in 1945 he married Mary Wescott Tuttle. In 1945 Haydn became editor, later editor in chief, for Crown Publishers until he moved to Bobbs-Merrill in 1950 and to

in 1955, where he became editor in chief in 1956. In 1959 he became one of the founders of Atheneum together with Simon Bessie and Alfred Knopf Jr. He left in 1964 to join Harcourt, Brace & World. Among the writers he worked with as editor were William Styron,

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, and

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. Books series he edited included the Makers of the American Tradition Series (Bobbs-Merrill) and The Twentieth Century Library (Charles Scribner's Sons). He wrote five novels, as well as an academic work about the " counter revolution" that he argued took place during the middle period of the ''

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''. His memoir, ''Words & Faces'', was published posthumously.Barbara Capitman
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'', February 6, 1975. During his career he also taught at several colleges including the

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, the Center for Advanced Study at

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, and the

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. Haydn had a seasonal home in Chilmark, Massachusetts, on

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, where he died of a heart attack in December 1973 at age 66. He was survived by his wife Mary, two sons, and two daughters."Hiram Haydn, 66, Author, Publisher Dies in Bay State"
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Books

Novels

*''By Nature Free'' (1943) *''Manhattan Furlough'' (1945) *''The Time is Noon'' (1948) *''The Hands of Esau'' (1962) *''Report from the Red Windmill'' (1967)

History

*''The Counter-Renaissance'' (1950)

Memoir

*''Words & Faces'' (1974)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Haydn, Hiram American book editors 1907 births 1973 deaths Writers from Cleveland Amherst College alumni Case Western Reserve University alumni Columbia University alumni People from Chilmark, Massachusetts