Leon H. Vincent (1859-1941), born in Chicago, was a literary critic, lecturer, editor and professor of English and American literature at various American universities. His most famous works are The Bibliographer (1898) and American Literary Masters (1906), collection of essays on authors like Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, H. D. Thoreau and Walt Whitman, among others. His studies of British authors include works by Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy and John Keats. He also wrote about some figures of the French letters. Many of his articles and essays were originally published in literary magazines such as Atlantic Monthly, Springfield Republican and Poet Lore. Among his other works: A Few Words on Robert Browning (1895), Hôtel de Rambouillet and the Précieuses (1900), Dandies and Men of Letters (1913).