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Herbert Faulkner West (6 January 1898 - 9 November 1974) was an American writer, educator, publisher, and bookseller.

Life

Professor West served in World War I as an artilleryman in France before entering Dartmouth. He joined the faculty as an instructor on graduation in 1922 and was awarded an M.A in 1924. He received another M.A from Harvard in 1933.

graduated from Dartmouth College in 1922 and 1924 and taught there until his retirement in 1964.

In 1938 he founded the Friends of the Dartmouth Library, which was instrumental in contributing many rarities to its collection.

He established Westholm Publications in 1955. West's first book was a monograph on English novelist and nature writer Henry Williamson. Subsequent books included The Nature Writers, A Modern Conquistador (a biography of Cunninghame Graham), The Mind on the Wing: A Book for Readers and Collectors, and Modern Book Collecting for the Impecunious Amateur. In 1938 he founded the Friends of the Dartmouth Library, which was instrumental in contributing many rarities to its collection.

Correspondents include Robert Frost, Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, Henry Miller, Maxfield Parrish, Anais Nin, Paul Sample and Ben Ames Williams.

His final lecture was delivered to a standing room only audience of over a thousand students who gave him a seven minute ovation. Later in the week, a recording of the lecture – in a very sanitized version lacking all the criticism of the administration – was broadcast on the college’s radio station. If it had not been for the administration’s censoring of a recorded transcript broadcast on WDCR, Herb might never have privately printed his uncensored lecture – which became a collector’s edition for those who could find one of the 200 letterpress copies.

Herbert Faulkner West died aged 76 at the Veterans Administration Hospital in White River Junction, Vermont.