Leon H. Vincent

Leon Henry Vincent (1859-1941) was an American essayist, literary critic, and lecturer active around the turn of the twentieth century. He wrote accessible studies of authors and literary life, among them American Literary Masters, The French Academy, and Hôtel de Rambouillet and the Précieuses. His essays often appeared in periodicals such as the Atlantic Monthly, and he was known for a genial, conversational style of criticism aimed at the general reader.