Feltus Wylie Sypher was an American non-fiction writer and professor.

Sypher was born in Mount Kisco

Mount Kisco, New York

Mount Kisco is a community that is both a village and a town in Westchester County, New York, United States. The Town of Mount Kisco is coterminous with the village. The population was 10,877 at the 2010 census.- History :...

, New York

New York

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 to Harry Wylie Sypher and Martha Berry. He graduated from Amherst College

Amherst College

Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1,744 students in the fall of 2009...

 in 1927. He received a master's degree from Tufts University

Tufts University

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 in 1929 and became an instructor at Simmons College

Simmons College (Massachusetts)

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. That same year he married Lucy Johnston

Lucy Johnston Sypher

Lucy Johnston Sypher, - , was the author of four children's books loosely based on her childhood in the small prairie town of Wales, North Dakota...

. In 1932, he received his second master's degree from Harvard University

Harvard University

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. He earned his Ph.D. in 1937 from Harvard.

Throughout his life, Sypher wrote on the history of art and literature, sometimes combining both. Sypher viewed art history and criticism as the same thing.

He died in Hackettstown, New Jersey in 1987.

External links

• Wylie Sypher at the New York Review of Books.