Edwin Percy Whipple

Edwin Percy Whipple (March 8, 1819 – June 16, 1886)[1] was an American essayist and critic.

[3] Historian Perry Miller called Whipple "Boston's most popular critic".

After Hawthorne's death in 1864, Whipple served as a pallbearer for his funeral alongside Amos Bronson Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, James T. Fields, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Edward Emerson later noted, "No other member of the Saturday Club has ever been more loyally felicitous in characterizing the literary work of his associates.

"[6] Whipple died in 1886 and was interred at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.