Robert Hansell Baugh (December 16, 1903 – January 8, 1995) was an American writer and librarian.
Hansell Baugh | |
|---|---|
| Born | Robert Hansell Baugh December 16, 1903 Pulaski, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Died | January 8, 1995 (aged 91) Maitland, Florida, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer and Librarian |
| Education | Emory University (BA) |
Biography
editRobert Hansell Baugh was the son of Atha Thomas Baugh (1855–1934) and Maggie May McCord Baugh (1867–1956) of Pulaski, Tennessee. The family moved to Atlanta, Georgia when Baugh was young, and he graduated as valedictorian and senior class president from the University School for Boys in 1921.[1] He would then enroll at Emory University.[2] He worked from 1925 to 1930 for the United States Rubber Company as assistant editor in the publicity and publication department. As part of this job, he traveled to Sumatra and Malay making an educational film about the growing of rubber on rubber plantations.
Other jobs included secretary at Lawson General Hospital, an Army hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, and librarian for the College of Physicians in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the Institute of General Semantics in Connecticut. He was also a book reviewer and freelance writer. A close friend of author Frances Newman, Baugh edited her letters after Newman's death.
Baugh died on January 8, 1995, in Maitland, Florida.[3]
References
editSelected bibliography
edit- Baugh, H. (1921, December). Urbana, Ill. The Reviewer, 2(3), 122–7.
- Baugh, H. (1922, March). Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde. The Reviewer, 2(6), 328–33.
- Baugh, H. (1922, September 3). Yesteryear's Books: A review of The Return of the Soilder by Rebecca West. New York Tribune, 8.
- Baugh, H. (1923, June 10). Review of A Man from Maine by Edward W. Bok. Atlanta Journal, 28.
- Baugh, H. (1926, April). Nietzsche and His Music. Musical Quarterly, 12(2), 238-47.
- Baugh, H. (1926, October). Music and the Mediterranean. Musical Quarterly, 12(4), 623-30.
- Baugh, H. (1928). Emerson and the Elder Henry James. Bookman: A Review of Books and Life. 68, 320-2.
- Baugh, H., ed. (1929) Frances Newman's Letters. New York: Horace Liveright.
- Baugh, H. (1931, April 15). The End of the Crusades: A review of The Flame of Islam by Harold Lamb. New Republic, 66(854), 244-5.
- Baugh, H. (1931, June 17). Mr. and Mrs. Carlyle: A review of The Two Carlyles by Osbert Burdett, New Republic, 67(863), 132.
- Baugh, H. (1931, September 23). Religion of a Critic: A review of The Life and Letters of Sir Edmund Gosse by Evan Chateris. New Republic, 68(877), 159.
- Baugh, H. (1931, October-December). An Experiment in Southern Letters: A review of Innocence Abroad by Emily Clark. Sewanee Review, 39(4), 492-4.
- Baugh, H. (1931, October-December). The Old Pretender: A review of Henry James: Letters to A. C. Benson and Auguste Monod edited by E. F. Benson. Sewanee Review, 39(4), 504-7.
- Baugh, H. (1931, October-December). Mutations of the Novel: A review of Five Masters: A Study in the Mutations of the Novel by Joseph Wood Krutch. Sewanee Review, 39(4), 507-10.
- Baugh, H. (1931, December 9). Uneasy Paradise: A review of Malaise by Henry Fauconnier. New Republic, 69(888), 108-9.
- Baugh, H., ed. (1938). Papers from the First American Congress for General Semantics. Chicago: Institute of General Semantics.