Editing Harvard University (section)

===Literature===
In contemporary literature, Harvard University features prominently in multiple novels, including:

* ''[[The Sound and the Fury]]'' (1929) and ''[[Absalom, Absalom!]]'' (1936), two novels by [[William Faulkner]], both of which depict Harvard student life.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Crinkley |first=Richmond |date=July 12, 1962 |title=WILLIAM FAULKNER: The Southern Mind Meets Harvard In the Era Before World War I |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1962/7/12/william-faulkner-the-southern-mind-meets/ |access-date=2024-03-01 |website=www.thecrimson.com |archive-date=March 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240301055801/https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1962/7/12/william-faulkner-the-southern-mind-meets/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* ''[[Of Time and the River]]'' (1935) by [[Thomas Wolfe]], a fictionalized autobiography, depicting Wolfe's [[alter ego]], Eugene Gant, a Harvard student.<ref name="Vaughan Bail-1958">{{Cite journal |last=Vaughan Bail |first=Hamilton |date=1958 |title=Harvard Fiction: Some critical and Bibliographical Notes |url=https://www.americanantiquarian.org/proceedings/44525042.pdf |journal=American Antiquarian Society |pages=346–347 |access-date=March 1, 2024 |archive-date=March 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240301055757/https://www.americanantiquarian.org/proceedings/44525042.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
* ''[[The Late George Apley]]'' (1937), by 1915 Harvard alumnus [[John P. Marquand]], a novel presenting a satirical view of Harvard men in the early 20th century,<ref name="Vaughan Bail-1958" /> which was awarded the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Late George Apley |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100052807?d=%2F10.1093%2Foi%2Fauthority.20110803100052807 |website=Oxford Reference |language=en |access-date=March 1, 2024 |archive-date=April 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240401214630/https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100052807?d=/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100052807 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* ''The Second Happiest Day'' (1953), by John P. Marquand, portrays Harvard during the [[World War II]] generation.{{refn |{{cite book |title=Wrestling with the Angel|last=King|first=Michael|year=2002|page=371|quote=...praised as an iconic chronicle of his generation and his WASP-ish class.}} }}{{refn|{{cite news|title=White Shoe and Weak Will|first=Michael J.|last=Halberstam|date= February 18, 1953 |newspaper=Harvard Crimson |url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1953/2/18/white-shoe-and-weak-will-pjohn/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151126180414/http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1953/2/18/white-shoe-and-weak-will-pjohn/ |archive-date=November 26, 2015 |url-status=live |quote=The book is written slickly, but without distinction.... The book will be quick, enjoyable reading for all Harvard men.}} }}{{refn |{{cite news|last=Yardley|first=Jonathan|author-link=Jonathan Yardley|title=Second Reading|date=December 23, 2009|url =https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/22/AR2009122203456.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151209173651/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/22/AR2009122203456.html|archive-date=December 9, 2015|url-status=live|quote=&thinsp;'...a balanced and impressive novel...' [is] a judgment with which I [agree].|newspaper=The Washington Post}} }}{{refn |{{cite news|title=Out of a Jitter-and-Fritter World|last=Du Bois|first=William|work=The New York Times|date=February 1, 1953|page=BR5|quote="exhibits Mr. Phillips' talent at its finest"}} }}{{refn |{{cite news|work=Southwest Review|volume=38|page=267|title=John Phillips, The Second Happiest Day|quote=So when the critics say the author of "The Second Happiest Day" is a new Fitzgerald, we think they may be right. }} }}