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Edmund Wilson was the most influential American critic of the 20th century. His omnivorous curiosity and ambition made him a historian, investigative reporter, novelist and chronicler as well, and his essays and reviews continue to be exciting because they are sustained by the energetic delight he took in confronting a new book, writer or topic. . Wilson was the critic of the lost generation, made up of writers such as Hemingway, Dos Passos or Scott Fitzgerald, as well as one of the first to link together the transcendental work of Joyce, Proust, Eliot or Stein, and to vindicate the merits of authors like Wharton or Porter.