Ernest Boyd-Dublin, Ireland
Ernest Boyd, Editor, translator,
critic, and essayist, was born in Dublin,
Ireland in 1887. He
was educated privately, reading much in French
literature and later attending
school in Switzerland and Germany. In
1910 he became a member of
the editorial staff of the Irish Times in
Dublin as a dramatic critic
and political reporter. He entered the consular
service of Great Britain and
was stationed in Baltimore for a while. After
his resignation from that
service in 1920 Boyd made his residence in New
York City and began to contribute
articles to American magazines. He
wrote editorials for the New
York Evening Post and the Literary Review.
He was a reader for the Alfred
K. Knopf, publishers, and for the Theatre
Guild. His later editorial
work included a column "Readers and Writers"
in the Independent and
an editorship on The New Freeman. Beside his num-
erous translations,
Boyds literary productions include: Contemporary Drama
of Ireland, Appreciations
and Depreciations, Real and Imaginary, Studies
in Ten Literatures, H.L.
Mencken, After the Fireworks, and The Pretty Lady,
the last two being comedies.
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