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| Born | William Brian Hooker November 2, 1880 |
| Died | December 28, 1946 (aged 66) New London, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Yale University |
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| Known for | Cyrano de Bergerac (1923) The Vagabond King (1925) |
| Spouse | Doris Redfield Cooper[1] |
| Children | 3 daughters |
| Parent(s) | Elizabeth Work William Augustus Hooker |
| Relatives | Thomas Hooker |
William Brian Hooker (November 2, 1880 – December 28, 1946) was an American poet, educator, lyricist, and librettist. He was born in New York City, the son of Elizabeth Work and William Augustus Hooker, who was a mining engineer for the New York firm of Hooker and Lawrence. His family was well known in Hartford, Connecticut having descended from Thomas Hooker, a prominent Puritan religious and colonial leader who founded the Colony of Connecticut.[2]
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Hooker attended Yale College in the class of 1902, where he was a writer,[3] editor and business manager for campus humor magazine The Yale Record.[4] He was an editor of the Yale Record collection Yale Fun (1901).[5] He died in New London, Connecticut, aged 66.
- ^ "Brian Hooker Dies; Noted For 'Cyrano'", The New York Times, December 29, 1946, p. 37. ProQuest Historical Newspapers, Ann Arbor, Michigan; subscription access through The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Library.
- ^ Hooker, Edward; Hooker, Margaret Huntington (1909). "The descendants of Rev. Thomas Hooker, Hartford, Connecticut, 1586-1908 : being an account of what is known of Rev. Thomas Hooker's family in England : and more particularly concerning himself and his influence upon the early history of our country : also all items of interest which it has been possible to gather concerning the early generations of Hookers and their descendants in America". Rochester, N.Y. : Margaret Huntington Hooker, 1909 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Bronson, Francis W., Thomas Caldecott Chubb, and Cyril Hume, eds. (1922) The Yale Record Book of Verse: 1872-1922. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 13-14, 54-57.
- ^ "William Brian Hooker". Obituary Record of Graduates Of Yale University: Deceased During the Year 1946-1947. New Haven: Yale University. January 1, 1948. p. 63.
- ^ Hastings, Wells, Brian Hooker, and Henry Ely, eds. (1901) Yale Fun. New Haven: Yale Record. p. 1.