Hansell Baugh


Robert Hansell Baugh was an American writer and librarian.

Biography

Robert Hansell Baugh was the son of Atha Thomas Baugh and Maggie May McCord Baugh of Pulaski, Tennessee. The family moved to Atlanta, Georgia when Baugh was young, and he graduated as valedictorian and senior class president from the University School for Boys in 1921. He would then enroll at Emory University. He worked from 1925 to 1930 for the United States Rubber Company as assistant editor in the publicity and publication department. As part of this job, he traveled to Sumatra and Malay making an educational film about the growing of rubber on rubber plantations.
Other jobs included secretary at Lawson General Hospital, an Army hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, and librarian for the College of Physicians in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the Institute of General Semantics in Connecticut. He was also a book reviewer and freelance writer. A close friend of author Frances Newman, Baugh edited her letters after Newman's death.
Baugh died on January 8, 1995, in Maitland, Florida.

Selected bibliography

  • Baugh, H.. . The Reviewer, 2, 122–7.
  • Baugh, H.. . The Reviewer, 2, 328–33.
  • Baugh, H.. Yesteryear's Books: A review of The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West. New York Tribune, 8.
  • Baugh, H.. Review of A Man from Maine by Edward W. Bok. Atlanta Journal, 28.
  • Baugh, H.. . Musical Quarterly, 12, 238-47.
  • Baugh, H.. . Musical Quarterly, 12, 623-30.
  • Baugh, H.. Emerson and the Elder Henry James. Bookman: A Review of Books and Life. 68, 320-2.
  • Baugh, H., ed. '. New York: Horace Liveright.
  • Baugh, H.. The End of the Crusades: A review of The Flame of Islam by Harold Lamb. New Republic, 66, 244-5.
  • Baugh, H.. Mr. and Mrs. Carlyle: A review of The Two Carlyles by Osbert Burdett, New Republic, 67, 132.
  • Baugh, H.. Religion of a Critic: A review of The Life and Letters of Sir Edmund Gosse by Evan Chateris. New Republic, 68, 159.
  • Baugh, H.. An Experiment in Southern Letters: A review of Innocence Abroad by Emily Clark. Sewanee Review, 39, 492-4.
  • Baugh, H.. The Old Pretender: A review of Henry James: Letters to A. C. Benson and Auguste Monod edited by E. F. Benson. Sewanee Review, 39, 504-7.
  • Baugh, H.. Mutations of the Novel: A review of Five Masters: A Study in the Mutations of the Novel by Joseph Wood Krutch. Sewanee Review, 39, 507-10.
  • Baugh, H.. Uneasy Paradise: A review of Malaise by Henry Fauconnier. New Republic, 69, 108-9.
  • Baugh, H., ed.. '. Chicago: Institute of General Semantics.