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There was a prefatory letter by Archibald MacLeish, a professor at Harvard and a former Librarian of Congress, and an introduction by Mark Schorer, a professor of English at Berkeley, along with blurbs from other eminent men of letters.
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Louis Menand, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
Mann has been invited to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Goethe, Germany’s greatest man of letters.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 15 May 2026
Prestigious man of letters Sheridan Whiteside (Monty Woolley) spills down the snowy front steps at the home of a small-town family, the Stanleys — where he's planned a promo dinner in Mesalia, Ohio, right around the holidays.
—Gwen Ihnat, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Dec. 2025
But Levy is many other things, including a man of letters (with a master’s degree in English from Harvard) who enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in 1943.
—Kansas City Star, 12 Sep. 2025
Borders Abbey Towns Preposterously beautiful, this is where Sir Walter Scott—Scotland’s man of letters and author of Rob Roy and Ivanhoe—waxed lyrical.
—Mike MacEacheran, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Sep. 2025
Marty is an erudite man of letters who has long wanted to meet one of his favorite writers.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2025
Kitty was one of those who disapproved of the young Stephen siblings’ move to Bloomsbury in 1904 after the death of their father, the eminent late-Victorian man of letters Sir Leslie Stephen.
—Literary Hub, 14 May 2025
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Louis Menand, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
Mann has been invited to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Goethe, Germany’s greatest man of letters.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 15 May 2026
Prestigious man of letters Sheridan Whiteside (Monty Woolley) spills down the snowy front steps at the home of a small-town family, the Stanleys — where he's planned a promo dinner in Mesalia, Ohio, right around the holidays.
—Gwen Ihnat, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Dec. 2025
But Levy is many other things, including a man of letters (with a master’s degree in English from Harvard) who enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in 1943.
—Kansas City Star, 12 Sep. 2025
Borders Abbey Towns Preposterously beautiful, this is where Sir Walter Scott—Scotland’s man of letters and author of Rob Roy and Ivanhoe—waxed lyrical.
—Mike MacEacheran, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Sep. 2025
Marty is an erudite man of letters who has long wanted to meet one of his favorite writers.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2025
Kitty was one of those who disapproved of the young Stephen siblings’ move to Bloomsbury in 1904 after the death of their father, the eminent late-Victorian man of letters Sir Leslie Stephen.
—Literary Hub, 14 May 2025
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“Man of letters.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/man%20of%20letters. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.
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