Weeks (Edward A.) is born in Elizabeth, New Jersey.

Edward Weeks serves as an ambulance driver in the French Army in World War I, then forgoes Princeton to attend Harvard, prompting his uncle to tell his father, “If he goes to Harvard he may get over it, but he’ll never be the same.” After graduation, he works in publishing, initially in in New York, then returns to Boston in 1924 to work for The Atlantic Monthly, becoming editor in 1938. Known for discovering and cultivating new writers, and leading the fight to overturn Massachusetts’ strict obscenity laws, Weeks lives at 53 Chestnut Street. After retiring in 1966, he moves to Thompson, Connecticut, and dies there on March 11, 1989.