Family background and boyhood in California; Stanford University and Columbia, 1913-1917; editorial writer, New York GLOBE and New York SUN, literary editor SUN, 1925; editor, Longmans, Green Company, 1925-1931: authors, manuscripts, New York City literary and publishing circles; THE WINGED HORSE, 1927; adult educational programs, Columbia Broadcasting System; lecturing and freelance writing, poetr y and prose, WESTWARD STAR, THE CANTERBURY TALES, texts and young people's books; collaboration with Allan Nevins on biographies of Rockefeller and Ford; Radio Pioneers project for the Oral History Research Office. Comments on publishing, books, and authors, especially Allan Nevins, Don Marquis, Edwin Markham, Vachel Linsday, Carl Sandburg
Editors; Authors; Journalism; Book industries and trade; Radio in adult education; Oral history; American literature--20th century; Hill, Frank Ernest, 1888-1969; Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971; Columbia University. Oral History Research Office; Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc