Birth Name: Van Wyck Brooks
Occupation: Historian
Place Of Birth: New Jersey
Date Of Birth: February 16, 1886
Date Of Death: May 2, 1963
Cause Of Death: N/A
Ethnicity: Unknown
Nationality: American
Van Wyck Brooks was born on the 16th of February, 1886. He was best known for being a Historian. U.S. historian and critic who wrote about Mark Twain. In 1936, he won the 2nd National Book Award for Non-Fiction for his novel The Flowering of New England.
Van Wyck Brooks was born in New Jersey. He studied at Harvard University, where he published his first book: Verses by Two Undergraduates. In 1937, he won a Pulitzer Prize in history.
Van Wyck Brooks was a Aquarius and was born in the G.I. Generation.
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Childhood
Van Wyck Brooks was born in 1880s.
Van Wyck Brooks is part of G.I. Generation also known as The Greatest Generation. This generation experienced much of their youth during the Great Depression and rapid technological innovation such as the radio and the telephone. The initials "G.I." is military terminology referring to "Government Issue" or "General Issue".
Education
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Family
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Van Wyck Brooks was born in the Year of the Dog.
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| REAL NAME: | Van Wyck Brooks |
| NICKNAME: | Van |
| RELIGION: | Unknown |
| AGE GENERATION: | G.I. Generation |
| BIRTH SIGN: | Aquarius |
| BIRTH DAY: | Tuesday |
| DEATH DAY: | Thursday |
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Horoscope
Zodiac Sign: Van Wyck Brooks was a Aquarius. People of this zodiac sign like to have fun with friends, help others, fight for causes, are a good listener and dislike broken promises, being bored, and people who disagree with them. The strengths of this sign are being independent, original, while the weaknesses can be running from emotional expression, temperamental and uncompromising. The greatest overall compatibility with Aquarius is Leo and Sagittarius.
Chinese Zodiac: Van Wyck Brooks was born in the Year of the Dragon. People born under this sign are fiercely loyal and can always keep a secret. They're not afraid of the hardships in life, but they also tend to worry too much sometimes.
Ruling Planet: Van Wyck Brooks had a ruling planet of Uranus and has a ruling planet of Uranus. Back the early 2,000 B.C. the outer planets, Neptune and Pluto, were not yet discovered, since the telescope had not yet been invented. Astrologers and astronomers could only work with planets visible to the eye.
Van Wyck Brooks’s birth sign is Aquarius and he had a ruling planet of Uranus.
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