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John Kendrick Bangs (May 27, 1862 – January 21, 1922) was an American writer, humorist, editor and satirist. Biography 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. In 1894, Bangs ran for the office of mayor of Yonkers, New York, but was defeated. He also was a member of the Board of Education in Yonkers. He left Harper & Brothers in 1901 and became editor of the New Metropolitan magazine in 1903. In 1904 he was appointed editor of Puck, perhaps the foremost American humor magazine of its day. In this period, he revived his earlier interest in drama. In 1906 he switched his focus to the lecture circuit. During the period between 1901 and 1906 Bangs was known to have spent at least parts of his summers at the Profile House in Franconia, New Hampshire. He owned one of the 20 connected cottages adjacent to the large hotel, which he sold to Cornelius Newton Bliss in August 1906. As a satirical writer, he was also known in the "Profile Cottage" circles as a jokester and prankster and was frequently the jovial topic of hotel guests and cottage owners alike. In 1918, he lectured for YMCA and allied troops on the battle front in France during World War I. In 1886, he married Agnes L. Hyde, with whom he had three sons. Agnes died in 1903. Bangs then married Mary Blakeney Gray of New York in 1904. In 1907 they moved from Yonkers to Ogunquit, Maine. John Kendrick Bangs died from stomach cancer in 1922 at age fifty-nine, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Works Books published in three story series are listed separately (Series, below): Associated Shades, The Idiot, and Raffles (the latter created by E. W. Hornung). The Lorgnette (1886) with S. W. Van Schalck, New York: George J. Coombes Roger Camerden: A Strange Story (1887); New York: George J. Coombes Katharine: A Travesty (1887); New York: Gilliss Brothers and Turner, Art Age Press New Waggings of Old Tales by Two Wags (1888) with Frank Dempster Sherman and Oliver Herford; Boston: Ticknor Mephistopheles: A Profanation (1889); New York: Gilliss Brothers & Turner, Art Age Press Tiddledywink Tales (1891), illus. Charles Howard Johnson; New York: R. H. Russell & Son The Tiddledywink's Poetry Book (1892), illus. Charles Howard Johnson; Dewitt Publishing House In Camp with a Tin Solder (1892), illus. E. M. Ashe; New York: R. H. Russell & Son Half Hours with Jimmieboy (1893), illus. Frank Verbeck, Charles Howard Johnson, J. T. Richards (F.T.?), P. Newell, and others; New York: R. H. Russell & Son Toppleton's Client: or A Spirit in Exile (1893); London: Osgood, McIlvaine; New York: Harper & Brothers Three Weeks in Politics (1894); New York and London: Harper & Brothers The Water Ghost, and Others (1894); New York and London: Harper & Brothers "Thurlow's Christmas Story" (1894) – included in Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others (1898) and in American Fantastic Tales, ed. Peter Straub (The Library of America, 2009) A Summers Sojourn (1895) Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica (1895), illus. H. W. McVickar (Henry W.); New York and London: Harper & Brothers The Paradise Club (1895) A Rebellious Heroine (1896), illus. W. T. Smedley (William T.); New York and London: Harper & Brothers The Bicyclers, and Three Other Farces (1896); New York and London: Harper & Brothers The Mantel-Piece Minstrels, and Other Stories (1897); New York and London: Harper & Brothers A Prophecy and a Plea (1897) Paste Jewels: Being Seven Tales of Domestic Woe (1897); New York and London: Harper & Brothers Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others (1898), illus. Peter Newell, A. B. Frost, and F. T. Richards; New York and London: Harper & Brothers Peeps at Peoples: Passages from the Writings of Anne Warrington Witherup, Journalist (1899), illus. Edward Penfield; New York and London: Harper & Brothers The Dreamers: A Club: Being a More or Less Faithful Account of the Literary Exercises of the First Regular Meeting of That Organization (1899), illus. Edward Penfield; New York and London: Harper & Brothers Cobwebs from a Literary Corner (1899); New York and London: Harper & Brothers In Camp with a Tin Soldier (1900), illus. E. M. Ashe, New York: R. H. Russell The Booming of Acre Hill and Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life (1900); New York and London: Harper & Brothers Over the Plum-Pudding (1901); New York and London: Harper & Brothers Bikey the Skicycle and Other Tales of Jimmieboy (1902); New York: Riggs Publishing Company Emblemland, by Bangs and editorial cartoonist Charles Raymond Macauley (1902); New York: R. H. Russell; also issued as Rollo in Emblemland Mollie and the Unwiseman (1902), illus. Albert Levering and Clare Victor Dwiggins; Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co. Olympian Nights (1902); New York and London: Harper & Brothers Uncle Sam, Trustee (1902); New York: Riggs Publishing Company Over the Plum Pudding (1902) Under Difficulties (1905) The Worsted Man, A Musical Play for Amateurs (1905); New York: Harper & Brothers The Andiron Tales (1906); Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co. Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream (1907), illus. Albert Levering; New York: Doubleday, Page & Company The Whole Family: A Novel by Twelve Authors (1908) – one chapter by Bangs Potted Fiction: Being a Series of Extracts from the World's Best Sellers, Put Up in Thin Slices for Hurried Consumers (1908), edited by Bangs; New York: Doubleday, Page & Co. The Real Thing and Three Other Farces (1909); New York and London: Harper & Brothers The Autobiography of Methuselah (1909), illus. F. G. Cooper; New York: B. W. Dodge & Company Mollie and the Unwiseman Abroad (1910), illus. Grace G. Wiederseim; Philadelphia and London: J. Lippincott Company Songs of Cheer (1910); Boston: Sherman French & Company Jack and the Checkbook (1911), illus. Albert Levering; New York and London: Harper & Brothers E.... Discover the E W Hornung John Kendrick Bangs popular books. Find the top 100 most popular E W Hornung John Kendrick Bangs books.

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