Eric Wollencott Barnes

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Eric Wollencott Barnes was an American educator, diplomat, actor, and author. Barnes attended public schools in Little Rock. He entered UCLA in 1925, and in 1926 transferred to L'École des Sciences Politiques in Paris, where he graduated in 1930. He received a diplome d'études superieures from the University of Paris in 1931, followed by a fellowship at the Sorbonne, then obtained a teaching post at the University of Paris in 1932. In 1940 Barnes received a Doctor of Letters degree from the University of Paris. In 1930 Barnes enlisted in the United States Foreign Service, and was appointed Vice Consul at Bucharest, Romania, and then in Sofia, Bulgaria. Returning to the U.S. in the mid-1930s he pursued an acting career in New York, where he appeared in several plays under the stage name Eric Wollencott