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John Kendrick Bangs

The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of John Kendrick Bangs

Volume 1-Including One Novel 'Toppleton's Client or a Spirit in Exile' and Ten Sh

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The first of three volumes by the master of satirical ghost storiesAmerican author John Kendrick Bangs was a well known writer and editor whose work appeared in Life, Harper's Bazaar and Harper's Magazine. His speciality was making his readers laugh and he was delightfully termed the editor in charge of the Department of Humour for all three publications. This job profile no doubt gave him enormous satisfaction and he went on to edit both The Metropolitan Magazine and Puck which was the foremost American humour magazine at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth century. It is by no means unusual for those with a taste for the weird and ghos… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-85706-325-0
  • EAN: 9780857063250
  • Produktnummer: 8596323
  • Verlag: Leonaur
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
  • Seitenangabe: 336 S.
  • Masse: H22.2 cm x B14.5 cm x D2.3 cm 595 g
  • Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken mit Schutzumschlag
  • Gewicht: 595

Über den Autor


He was born in Yonkers, New York. His father Francis N. Bangs was a lawyer in New York City, as was his brother, Francis S. Bangs. He went to Columbia College from 1880 to 1883 where he became editor of Columbia's literary magazine, Acta Columbia, and contributed short anonymous pieces to humor magazines. After graduation in 1883 with a Bachelor of Philosophy degree in Political Science, Bangs entered Columbia Law School but left in 1884 to become Associate Editor of Life under Edward S. Martin. Bangs contributed many articles and poems to the magazine between 1884 and 1888. During this period, Bangs published his first books.In 1888 Bangs left Life to work at Harper's Magazine, Harper's Bazaar and Harper's Young People, though he continued to contribute to Life. From 1889 to 1900 he held the title of Editor of the Departments of Humor for all three Harper's magazines and from 1899 to 1901 served as active editor of Harper's Weekly. Bangs also served for a short time (January-June 1889) as the first editor of Munsey's Magazine and became editor of the American edition of the Harper-owned Literature from January to November 1899.

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