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Born into a patrician Boston family
in 1852, Robert Grant graduated from Harvard in 1873, later becoming Harvard's
first Ph. D. in English. By 1893 he had become a judge, although one of
his most famous legal decisions was upholding the decision to execute Sacco
and Vanzetti while on Governor Fuller's Advisory Board. He also advocated
more lenient divorce laws. Grant was a Fellow of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences, and a good friend of Edith
Wharton.
Major Works:
An Average Man (1884)
Unleavened Bread (1900)
The Undercurrent (1904)
The Chippendales (1909) |
