Hiram Hayden

Hiram Collins Haydn (November 3, 1907 – December 2, 1973) was an American writer and editor. He was editor in chief at Random House before leaving to help establish Atheneum Publishing. He was also the editor of Phi Beta Kappa's literary journal, The American Scholar, from 1944 to 1973.

Biography Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Haydn graduated from Amherst College in 1928, and later received a master's degree from Western Reserve University and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1942. He married Rachel Hutchinson Norris in 1935, later divorced; in 1945 he married Mary Wescott Tuttle. 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 Renaissance. His memoir, Words & Faces, was published posthumously. During his career he also taught at several colleges including the University of North Carolina, The New School for Social Research, the Center for Advanced Study at Wesleyan University, and the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

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)