Quinn, John

Quinn, John (1870–1924),
New York lawyer, early became a major collector of books and manuscripts, concentrating on the modern authors of Ireland, the land from which his father had emigrated. A friend of Yeats, he purchased many of his papers, the manuscript of Joyce's Ulysses, the manuscripts of Conrad's novels, and many of Pound's and Eliot's manuscripts, including the original version of The Waste Land. Most of these he sold (1923) to have funds for purchasing modern French paintings. A biography of Quinn by B.L. Reid, The Man from New York (1968), was awarded a Pulitzer Prize.