About William Hobart Royce
Lived 1878 – 1963 (aged 84). William Hobart Royce was an American writer, poet and biographer.
William Hobart Royce (; 20 March 1878 – 28 January 1963) In 1917 Royce joined the Gabriel Wells bookselling firm where he stayed for over 30 years. In Wells, Royce met someone with a fascination with Balzac as great as his own and the shop became a centre for the sale of all types of Balzaciana. It was Wells who prevented Balzac's house at Passy from destruction.
Selected publications Balzac Balzac, Immortal. 1926. A Balzac Bibliography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1929. Indexes to A Balzac Bibliography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1930. Balzac as he should be read. 1946. Poetry Remember Pearl Harbor! n.d. The Bookman's Lament. n.d. Balzac was Right, A Sonnet Sequence. New York, A. Giraldi, 1943.
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American writer (1878–1963)
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William Hobart Royce was born on 20 March 1878 in New York City.
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William Hobart Royce died on 28 January 1963 in New York City.
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