About Robert Cortes Holliday
Lived 1880 – 1947 (aged 66–67). Robert Cortes Holliday was an American writer and literary editor.
Robert Cortes Holliday (July 18, 1880 – January 1, 1947) was an American writer and literary editor.
Legacy Writer and friend, Christopher Morley, wrote of Holliday: "[he] has the genuine gift of the personal essay, mellow, fluent, and pleasantly eccentric."
Sometime between 1920 and 1925, Robert Holliday signed The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door, an autograph book of 242 bohemians. The door is now held by the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, and his signature can be found on front panel 2.
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Who was Robert Cortes Holliday?
American writer, essayist and editor
When was Robert Cortes Holliday born?
Robert Cortes Holliday was born in 1880 in Indianapolis.
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Robert Cortes Holliday died in 1947.
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Robert Cortes Holliday was a writer and literary editor.
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Robert Cortes Holliday was American.
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