1. Edgar Evertson Saltus was an American writer known for his highly refined prose style.
10 Facts About Edgar Saltus
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Edgar Saltus's works paralleled those by European decadent authors such as Joris-Karl Huysmans, Gabriele D'Annunzio and Oscar Wilde.
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Under the pseudonym Myndart Verelst, Saltus translated works by Balzac, Theophile Gautier, and Prosper Merimee; he wrote using the name Archibald Wilberforce.
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Edgar Saltus was born in New York City on October 8,1855, to Francis Henry Saltus and his second wife, Eliza Evertson, both of Dutch descent.
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Edgar Saltus wrote two books on philosophy: The Philosophy of Disenchantment focused on philosophical pessimism and in particular the philosophy of Schopenhauer and Eduard von Hartmann, while The Anatomy of Negation tried "to convey a tableau of anti-theism from Kapila to Leconte de Lisle".
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Edgar Saltus married his first wife, Helen Sturgis Read, in 1883.
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Edgar Saltus married his third wife, author Marie Flores Giles, in 1911.
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Edgar Saltus had a three-year love affair in the 1890s with heiress Aimee Crocker, confirmed in her memoir And I'd Do It Again.
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Edgar Saltus's elder half-brother Francis Saltus Saltus was a minor poet.
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The writer and photographer Carl Van Vechten, was instrumental in convincing Saltus's daughter, Elsie Saltus Munds, to donate to Yale what is known as the Edgar Saltus Papers, consisting of thirty-eight first editions, two of them inscribed, and eighteen letters written in 1918.