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Corbin (JOHN an American writer born)

JOHN, an American writer, born in Chicago in 1870. He graduated from Harvard in 1892 and took postgraduate courses in Oxford. He was successively editor of "Harper's Magazine," dramatic critic of " "Harper's Weekly," dramatic critic of the New York "Times" and New York "Sun," and literary manager of the New Theater , holding the latter position from 1908 to 1910. He wrote "Schoolboy Life in England (1898); "An American at Oxford" (1902); "The Cave Man" (1907); "The Edge" (1915). He was secretary of The Drama Society in New York from 1913 to 1916. From 1919 he was editorial writer of the New York "Times."