Edmund WILSON Born May 8, 1895, in Red Bank, New Jersey. Journalist, critic, poet, novelist. In 1912 he entered Princeton University where he became friends with F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Peale Bishop; and wrote for Nassau Literary Magazine. In 1916 he graduated from Princeton, attended a military preparedness camp in Plattsburgh for the summer, and became a reporter for the New York Evening Sun. He enlisted in the US Army and by late 1917 was in France serving in an army hospital unit; attending the wounded in the Vosges. In 1918, through his father's influence, he was transferred to the Intelligence Corps, AEF General Headquarters, in Chaumont. After demobilization in 1919, he worked at freelance writing in New York.