GRISWOLD, RUFUS WILMOT American editor and compiler, was born in Benson, Vt., on Feb. 15, 1815. He was a Baptist clergyman for a time, then became a journalist in New York city, and succeeded Poe as editor of Graham's Mag azine (Philadelphia). As literary executor he edited, together with James R. Lowell and N. P. Willis, the writings (185o) of Edgar Allan Poe. He died in the City of New York on Aug. 27, 1857.
See Passages from the Correspondence and Other Papers of Rufus W. Griswold (1898), edited by his son, W. M. Griswold; and "The Poe-Griswold Controversy" by Killis Campbell, Modern Lan guage Association Publications, ,vol. xxxiv., pp. 436-464 (Baltimore, 1919).