Walter Prichard Eaton

Walter Prichard Eaton (1878-1957) was an American theatre critic, essayist, and nature writer. Born in Massachusetts and educated at Harvard, he covered drama for the New York Tribune from 1902, then for the New York Sun, and was drama critic of American Magazine from 1909 to 1918. His books on the stage include The Actor's Heritage (1924) and The Theatre Guild: The First Ten Years (1929), and he taught playwriting at Yale from 1933 to 1947. He settled in the Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts, the country behind his nature book In Berkshire Fields (1920).