HS English 3 lesson-Joyce Kilmer

American journalist, poet,  literary critic, lecturer,  editor and (not known to everyone) …

A former military man.

Alfred Joyce Kilmer (December 6, 1886 – July 30,1918)

Alfred Joyce Kilmer (December 6, 1886 – July 30, 1918)

Alfred Joyce Kilmer  American journalist  poet  literary critic  lecturer  A sergeant in the 165th U.S. Infantry

Regiment during W.W.1 Born :December 6, 1886 in New

Brunswick, New Jersey

Died:  July 30, 1918

ParentsFather: Dr. Frederick Barnett KilmerMother: Annie Ellen Kilburn- KilmerWife : Aline Murray

Children: Kenton Sinclair Kilmer

Michael Barry Kilmer 

 Clanton Kilmer

Rose Kilburn Kilmer

Christopher Kilmer

Family

Education

Rutgers College Grammar School - 1895Rutgers College-After his graduation but

transferred to…Columbia College of Columbia

University- He completed his Bachelor of Arts degree.

Affiliations

Academic ( Rutgers College)

Associate editor of The Targum, the campus newspaper ( Rutgers College)

a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity

(Columbia College of Columbia University) Kilmer was vice-president of the Philolexian

Society Associate editor of Columbia Spectator A member of the Debating Union

Taught Latin at Morristown High School in Morristown, New Jersey-1908

 submitted essays to Red Cross Notes (including his first published piece, an essay on the Psychology of Advertising

wrote book reviews for The Literary Digest, Town & Country, The Nation, and The New York Times.

employed by Funk and Wagnalls ( which was preparing an edition of The Standard Dictionary)

Work experiences

Enlisted in the Seventh Regiment of the New York National Guard.

assigned as a statistician with the U.S. 69th Infantry Regiment.