A Prelude

s/t: Landscapes, Characters & Conversations from the Earlier Years of My LifePROFILE of Edmund Wilson in the form of autobiographical reminiscences. He began keeping a journal in 1914. The first part deals predominantly with his childhood. He lived in Red Bank, N.J. and spent summers in Talcottville in upstate N.Y. and went to Hill School and later Princeton. The second part deals with his undergraduate days at Princeton - 1912 to 1916, and his life in New York 1916 to 1917 when he shared an apartment and worked on the N.Y. Evening Sun. The third part deals with his Army service Aug. 1917 to July 1919. He served in a hospital unit in Vittel, France and in the Intelligence Service at U.S. General Hq, in Chaumont. Two short stories, by Mr. Wilson, are included, both based on actual events. One, "The Death of a Soldier," tells about the death of a young soldier from pneumonia just before going to the front. The second, "Lieutenant Franklin" tells about a young officer in the Army of Occupation in Germany after the war, who fraternized with the Germans.Source: The New Yorker