The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Parker, William Belmont

PARKER, William Belmont, American editor: b. Hasbury, England, 19 Sept. 1871. He came to the United States in early youth, was

graduated at Harvard in 1897, and in 1898-1902 was assistant editor of the Atlantic Monthly. He was literary adviser to Houghton, Mifflin and Company, New York, in 1902-04; instructor in English at Harvard in 1904-05 and lecturer in that subject at Columbia in 1905-08. He was advisory editor of the Associated Sunday Magazines in 1906-08, and literary editor of the World's Work in 1908. He was editor and literary adviser to the Baker and Taylor Company in 1909-12, and literary adviser to the Century Company in 1912. He was business manager of the Churchman in 1912-14, and has been an editor with S. Pearson and Son since 1914. He edited Lowell's &lsquo;Anti-Slavery Papers&rsquo; (1903); Sir Philip Sidney's &lsquo;Certaine Sonets&rsquo; (1904); &lsquo;Complete Poems of Edward Rowland Sill&rsquo; (1906); &lsquo;The Wisdom of Emerson&rsquo; (1909); and was joint editor of &lsquo;Letters and Addresses of Thomas Jefferson&rsquo; (1905). Author of &lsquo;Life of Edward Rowland Sill&rsquo; (1915).