Brian Hooker (poet)

Brian Hooker
Born
William Brian Hooker

(1880-11-02)November 2, 1880
New York City, New York
United States
DiedDecember 28, 1946(1946-12-28) (aged 66)
New London, Connecticut, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
EducationYale University
Occupations
  • Poet
  • playwright
  • novelist
Known forCyrano de Bergerac (1923)
The Vagabond King (1925)
SpouseDoris Redfield Cooper[1]
Children3 daughters
Parent(s)Elizabeth Work
William Augustus Hooker
RelativesThomas Hooker

William Brian Hooker (November 2, 1880 – December 28, 1946) was an American poet, educator, lyricist, and librettist. He was born in New York City, the son of Elizabeth Work and William Augustus Hooker, who was a mining engineer for the New York firm of Hooker and Lawrence. His family was well known in Hartford, Connecticut having descended from Thomas Hooker, a prominent Puritan religious and colonial leader who founded the Colony of Connecticut.[2]

Cover of Hooker's 1908 romance novel The Right Man

Hooker attended Yale College in the class of 1902, where he was a writer,[3] editor and business manager for campus humor magazine The Yale Record.[4] He was an editor of the Yale Record collection Yale Fun (1901).[5] He died in New London, Connecticut, aged 66.

  1. ^ "Brian Hooker Dies; Noted For 'Cyrano'", The New York Times, December 29, 1946, p. 37. ProQuest Historical Newspapers, Ann Arbor, Michigan; subscription access through The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Library.
  2. ^ Hooker, Edward; Hooker, Margaret Huntington (1909). "The descendants of Rev. Thomas Hooker, Hartford, Connecticut, 1586-1908 : being an account of what is known of Rev. Thomas Hooker's family in England : and more particularly concerning himself and his influence upon the early history of our country : also all items of interest which it has been possible to gather concerning the early generations of Hookers and their descendants in America". Rochester, N.Y. : Margaret Huntington Hooker, 1909 – via Internet Archive.
  3. ^ Bronson, Francis W., Thomas Caldecott Chubb, and Cyril Hume, eds. (1922) The Yale Record Book of Verse: 1872-1922. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 13-14, 54-57.
  4. ^ "William Brian Hooker". Obituary Record of Graduates Of Yale University: Deceased During the Year 1946-1947. New Haven: Yale University. January 1, 1948. p. 63.
  5. ^ Hastings, Wells, Brian Hooker, and Henry Ely, eds. (1901) Yale Fun. New Haven: Yale Record. p. 1.