Wilson Follett was a writer, known now almost exclusively for his book Follett's Modern American Usage

Follett's Modern American Usage

Follett's Modern American Usage is the book published with the title Modern American Usage which was left in draft form and unfinished by Wilson Follett at his death. It was completed and edited by his friend Jacques Barzun in collaboration with six other editors. It is a usage guide for...

, which was unfinished at his death and was therefore completed and edited by his friend Jacques Barzun

Jacques Barzun

Jacques Martin Barzun is a French-born American historian of ideas and culture. He has written on a wide range of topics, but is perhaps best known as a philosopher of education, his Teacher in America being a strong influence on post-WWII training of schoolteachers in the United...

 (in collaboration with six other people who helped with the editing) and published posthumously. He also edited The Work of Stephen Crane

Stephen Crane

Stephen Crane was an American novelist, short story writer, poet and journalist. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism and Impressionism...

in twelve volumes (1925-27), the first collected edition of Crane's writings. He was the father of Barbara Newhall Follett

Barbara Newhall Follett

Barbara Newhall Follett was an American child prodigy novelist. Her first novel,The House Without Windows, was published in 1927 when she was thirteen years old...

, a child-prodigy author who disappeared in 1939 at the age of 25.