Edward Alexander (born 1936) is an American essayist and professor emeritus of English at the University of Washington.
 He has focused his research on literary figures such as John Stuart Mill, Matthew Arnold, John Morley, John Ruskin, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Lionel Trilling, Irving Howe, and Robert B. Heilman; and has authored books about Jewish history, Zionism, and antisemitism.
"The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society" (1950) is a collection of sixteen essays by critic, novelist, and professor of English Lionel Trilling.
 It was published by The Viking Press in 1950, which had published Trilling’s first and only novel, "The Middle of the Journey", three years earlier in 1947.
 "The Liberal Imagination" was edited by Pascal Covici, who had worked with Trilling when he edited and introduced Viking’s "Portable Matthew Arnold" in 1949.
Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (27 August 1899 – 2 April 1966), known by his pen name Cecil Scott "C. S." Forester, was an English novelist known for writing tales of naval warfare such as the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic wars.
 Two of the Hornblower books, "A Ship of the Line" and "Flying Colours", were jointly awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1938.
 His other works include "The African Queen" (1935; filmed in 1951 by John Huston).
Salzman was born September 8, 1933 in New York City and attended Forest Hills High School (1946–1950).
 After studying composition with Marris Mawner at the New York High School of Music and Art (1949–51), he continued his studies (majoring in music and minoring in literature) at Columbia University (BA 1954), where his teachers included Jack Beeson, Lionel Trilling, Otto Luening and Vladimir Ussachevsky.
 He pursued postgraduate work at Princeton University (MFA 1956) with Milton Babbitt, Roger Sessions, Earl Kim, Edward T. Cone, Arthur Mendel, Oliver Strunk and Nino Pirrotta.
 A Fulbright Fellowship (1956–58) enabled him to study at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome with Goffredo Petrassi, and at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse with Karlheinz Stockhausen, Bruno Maderna and Luigi Nono.
Louis Arnaud Reid was a British philosopher who held the foundation Chair in Philosophy of Education at the London University Institute of Education.
 He was a founding contributor to the "British Journal of Aesthetics", and is best known for his writings on epistemology and aesthetics.
 He influenced figures as diverse as Susanne Langer, Lionel Trilling and Harold Osborne.
 Jacques Barzun said that Reid's "A Study in Aesthetics" was the book that most influenced him in his life.
Lionel Mordecai Trilling (July 4, 1905 – November 5, 1975) was an American literary critic, short story writer, essayist, and teacher.
 He was one of the leading U.S. critics of the twentieth century who traced the contemporary cultural, social, and political implications of literature.
 With his wife Diana Trilling (née Rubin), whom he married in 1929, he was a member of the New York Intellectuals and contributor to the "Partisan Review".
The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud is a biography of Sigmund Freud by Ernest Jones.
 The most famous and influential biography of Freud, "The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud" was originally published in three volumes (first volume 1953, second volume 1955, third volume 1957); a one-volume edition abridged by literary critics Lionel Trilling and Steven Marcus followed in 1961.
 When first published, "The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud" was acclaimed, and sales exceeded expectations.
 Although his biography has retained its status as a classic, Jones has been criticized for presenting an overly favorable image of Freud.
Edward Mendelson (born 1946) is a professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University.
 He is the literary executor of the Estate of W. H. Auden and the author or editor of several books about Auden's work, including "Early Auden" (1981) and "Later Auden" (1999).
 He is also the author of "The Things That Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life" (2006).
, about nineteenth- and twentieth-century novels, and "Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers" (2015).
Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations in the Spanish Civil War.
 The first edition was published in the United Kingdom in 1938.
 The book was not published in the United States until February 1952, when it appeared with an influential preface by Lionel Trilling.
 The only translation published in Orwell's lifetime was into Italian, in December 1948.
 A French translation by Yvonne Davet—with whom Orwell corresponded, commenting on her translation and providing explanatory notes—in 1938–39, was not published until five years after Orwell's death.
Andrew H. Delbanco (born 1952) is the Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies at Columbia University.
 He is the author of several books, including "College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be" (2012), which has been translated into Chinese, Korean, Turkish, Russian, and Hebrew.
 "Melville: His World and Work" (2005), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography, was awarded the Lionel Trilling Award by Columbia University, and has been translated into German and Spanish.
 He has written many essays in journals of culture and opinion, especially "The New York Review of Books" and "The New Republic", on American literature and religion, as well as the history and current state of U.S. higher education.

Question: Who was born first, C. S. Forester or Lionel Trilling?
Answer: Cecil Louis Troughton Smith