Edward Waldo Emerson

Edward Waldo Emerson

Edward Waldo Emerson was an American physician, painter, writer, and lecturer. The only surviving son of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Lidian Jackson Emerson, he was his parents' heir and literary executor. He held degrees from Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and wrote or edited a number of books.