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Whipple, Edwin Percy

essayist, critic, author, was born March 8, 1819, in Gloucester, Mass. He was a Boston essayist and critic, whose writing was as discriminating as it was vigorous and epigrammatic in style. He was the author of Character and Characteristic Men; Literature and Life; Essays and Reviews; Success and Its Conditions; Literature of the Age of Elizabeth; Recollections of Eminent Men, with Other Papers; American Literature, and Other Papers; Outlooks on Society, Literature, and Politics; and Rufus Choate, a volume of personal recollections. He died June 16, 1886, in Boston, Mass.