William Aspenwall Bradley, writer, translator, and editor, made his greatest contribution to French and American literature as the most successful American literary agent in Paris during the twenties and thirties.

Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Bradley moved to New York City as a boy. He studied at Columbia University, receiving a B.A. in 1899 and an M.A. in 1900. He worked as art director and literary adviser for the McClure Company from 1900 to 1908, and then until World War I he worked mainly as a writer and editor. He contributed articles to the Boston Herald, American Magazine, and the Delineator while writing and editing a number of books. His books include a biography of William Cullen Bryant for the English Men of Letters series (1905), two volumes of poetry, published in 1917, and volumes on the etchers of Second-Empire France (1916) and seventeenth-century Holland (1918). The broad range of his literary and artistic interests...