William Lyon Phelps
He had a radio show, wrote a daily syndicated newspaper column, lectured frequently, and published numerous books and articles.and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale in 1887, writing an honors thesis on the Idealism of George Berkeley.[2] Phelps's wife, Annabel,[3] inherited her family's estate and William christened it "The House of the Seven Gables,” after the Nathanial Hawthorne story.[6] During the summer of 1922, the pastor of the Huron City Methodist Episcopal Church asked him to preach regularly for the season.[6] After his retirement from Yale, he continued to present public lectures, radio talks, and write a daily newspaper column about books and authors.He continued to give a series of Sunday sermons each summer and offer a 20-week lecture course in literature during the winter.He presented several college commencement addresses each year and served as a judge of the Pulitzer Prize for literature and on book club selection committees.[10] During his time as a Yale professor, Phelps invited a number of the Senior Class's notable students together in 1884 and founded The Pundits."[12] The professor asked his students to discuss the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins's "sprung rhythm" technique.