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John Kendrick Bangs

April 24, 2024

John Kendrick Bangs (May 27, 1862 – January 21, 1922) was an American writer, humorist, editor and satirist.

John Kendrick Bangs
Bangs in 1922
Born(1862-05-27)May 27, 1862
Yonkers, New York, U.S.
DiedJanuary 21, 1922(1922-01-21) (aged 59)
Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation
  • Author
  • humorist
  • editor
  • satirist
EducationColumbia College (BA)
Columbia Law School
GenreBangsian fantasy
Signature

Biography edit

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.[1]

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.[2] He also was a member of the Board of Education in Yonkers.[2]

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[3] 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.[2]

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.[2] 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.[4]

Works edit

 
Front cover of The Idiot (1895)

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
  • Echoes of Cheer (1912); Boston: Sherman French & Company
  • A Little Book of Christmas (1912), illus. Arthur E. Becher; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company
  • A Line o' Cheer for Each Day o' the Year (1913); Boston: Little, Brown, and Company
  • A Chafing Dish Party (1913); New York and London: Harper & Brothers
  • The Foothills of Parnassus (1915); New York: Macmillan
  • A Quest for Song (1915)
  • From Pillar to Post, Leaves from a Lecturer's Note-book (1916), illus. Jno. R. Neill, New York: The Century Co.
  • The Cheery Way (1919); New York and London: Harper & Brothers

Series edit

The Idiot

There were 1899 editions of both Coffee and Repartee, copyright 1893, and Coffee and Repartee and the Idiot, copyright 1893, 1895, 1899 (both available online at HathiTrust Digital Library, HDL). Perhaps one or both works were revised.

  • Coffee and Repartee (1893), illustrated; New York and London: Harper & Brothers
  • The Idiot (1895), illus. F. T. Richards; New York and London: Harper & Brothers
  • The Idiot at Home (1900), illus. Richards; New York and London: Harper & Brothers
  • The Inventions of the Idiot (1904); New York and London: Harper & Brothers
  • The Genial Idiot: His Views and Reviews (1908); New York and London: Harper & Brothers
  • Half-Hours with the Idiot" (1917); Boston: Little, Brown, and Company

Illustrations in Coffee and Repartee, unsigned, and The Idiot, clearly signed "F. T. Richards", were not credited (both available online at HDL). The Library of Congress reports "F.T. Richards" credited on the title page of The Idiot at Home, 1900 (first edition).[5]

Associated Shades

Originally the Associated Shades is an exclusive men's club in Hades, whose members are the shades of famous people, including Adam and Baron Munchausen but primarily historical writers: Homer, Confucius, Shakespeare, president Walter Raleigh, Johnson and Boswell, and many others. All four books were illustrated by Peter Newell.

  • A House-Boat on the Styx, Being Some Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades (1895); New York: Harper & Brothers
  • The Pursuit of the House-Boat, Being Some Further Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades, Under the Leadership of Sherlock Holmes, Esq. (1897); New York: Harper & Brothers
  • The Enchanted Type-Writer (1899) – collection; New York and London: Harper & Brothers
  • Mr. Munchausen: Being a True Account of Some of the Recent Adventures Beyond the Styx of the Late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Sometimes Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder, as Originally Reported for the Sunday Edition of the Gehenna Gazette by Its Special Interviewer the Late Mr. Ananias Formerly of Jerusalem and Now First Transcribed from the Columns of that Journal (1901) – featuring Baron Munchausen, one of the Associated Shades; Boston: Noyes, Platt
Raffles series

These two short story collections are sequels to the Raffles books by E. W. Hornung.

  • Mrs. Raffles: Being the Adventures of an Amateur Cracks Woman, Narrated by Bunny (1905), edited by Bangs, illus. Albert Levering; New York and London: Harper & Brothers
  • R. Holmes & Co.: Being the Remarkable Adventures of Raffles Holmes, Esq., Detective and Amateur Cracksman by Birth (1906), illus. Sydney Adamson; New York and London: Harper & Brothers

References edit

  1. ^ Howard van Sinderen (1920). "Memorial of Francis Sedgwick Bangs". New York County Lawyers' Association Year Book. pp. 232–234.
  2. ^ a b c d "Dallas Morning News". January 22, 1922. p. 10, column 6. Retrieved November 27, 2016.
  3. ^ Profile House in Franconia Notch, whitemountainhistory.org
  4. ^ Will Rogers; Arthur Frank Wertheim; Barbara Bair (1996). The Papers of Will Rogers: The Early Years : November 1879 – April 1904. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 351. ISBN 9780806127453. OCLC 31331717.
  5. ^ "Richards, F. T. (Frederick Thompson), 1864–1921". Library of Congress Authorities. Retrieved August 31, 2016.

Other sources edit

  • Bleiler, Everett (1948). The Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Chicago: Shasta Publishers. pp. 39–40.* "John Kendrick Bangs". The Literature Network.
  • Gale, Steven H. (1988). Encyclopedia of American Humorists. Garland Publishing, Inc. pp. 24–27. ISBN 9781317362272. Retrieved November 27, 2016.
  • Smith, Geoffrey D. (1997). American Fiction, 1901-1925: A Bibliography. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. pp. 34–35. ISBN 9780521434690. Retrieved November 27, 2016.

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April 24, 2024
john, kendrick, bangs, 1862, january, 1922, american, writer, humorist, editor, satirist, bangs, 1922born, 1862, 1862yonkers, york, diedjanuary, 1922, 1922, aged, atlantic, city, jersey, occupationauthor, humorist, editor, satiristeducationcolumbia, college, c. John Kendrick Bangs May 27 1862 January 21 1922 was an American writer humorist editor and satirist John Kendrick BangsBangs in 1922Born 1862 05 27 May 27 1862Yonkers New York U S DiedJanuary 21 1922 1922 01 21 aged 59 Atlantic City New Jersey U S OccupationAuthor humorist editor satiristEducationColumbia College BA Columbia Law SchoolGenreBangsian fantasySignature Contents 1 Biography 2 Works 2 1 Series 3 References 4 Other sources 5 External linksBiography editHe 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 1 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 2 He also was a member of the Board of Education in Yonkers 2 He left Harper amp 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 3 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 2 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 2 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 4 Works edit nbsp Front cover of The Idiot 1895 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 amp Turner Art Age Press Tiddledywink Tales 1891 illus Charles Howard Johnson New York R H Russell amp 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 amp 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 amp Son Toppleton s Client or A Spirit in Exile 1893 London Osgood McIlvaine New York Harper amp Brothers Three Weeks in Politics 1894 New York and London Harper amp Brothers The Water Ghost and Others 1894 New York and London Harper amp 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 amp Brothers The Paradise Club 1895 A Rebellious Heroine 1896 illus W T Smedley William T New York and London Harper amp Brothers The Bicyclers and Three Other Farces 1896 New York and London Harper amp Brothers The Mantel Piece Minstrels and Other Stories 1897 New York and London Harper amp Brothers A Prophecy and a Plea 1897 Paste Jewels Being Seven Tales of Domestic Woe 1897 New York and London Harper amp Brothers Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others 1898 illus Peter Newell A B Frost and F T Richards New York and London Harper amp Brothers Peeps at Peoples Passages from the Writings of Anne Warrington Witherup Journalist 1899 illus Edward Penfield New York and London Harper amp 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 amp Brothers Cobwebs from a Literary Corner 1899 New York and London Harper amp 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 amp Brothers Over the Plum Pudding 1901 New York and London Harper amp 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 amp Co Olympian Nights 1902 New York and London Harper amp 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 amp 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 amp 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 amp Co The Real Thing and Three Other Farces 1909 New York and London Harper amp Brothers The Autobiography of Methuselah 1909 illus F G Cooper New York B W Dodge amp Company Mollie and the Unwiseman Abroad 1910 illus Grace G Wiederseim Philadelphia and London J Lippincott Company Songs of Cheer 1910 Boston Sherman French amp Company Jack and the Checkbook 1911 illus Albert Levering New York and London Harper amp Brothers Echoes of Cheer 1912 Boston Sherman French amp Company A Little Book of Christmas 1912 illus Arthur E Becher Boston Little Brown and Company A Line o Cheer for Each Day o the Year 1913 Boston Little Brown and Company A Chafing Dish Party 1913 New York and London Harper amp Brothers The Foothills of Parnassus 1915 New York Macmillan A Quest for Song 1915 From Pillar to Post Leaves from a Lecturer s Note book 1916 illus Jno R Neill New York The Century Co The Cheery Way 1919 New York and London Harper amp Brothers Series edit The Idiot There were 1899 editions of both Coffee and Repartee copyright 1893 and Coffee and Repartee and the Idiot copyright 1893 1895 1899 both available online at HathiTrust Digital Library HDL Perhaps one or both works were revised Coffee and Repartee 1893 illustrated New York and London Harper amp Brothers The Idiot 1895 illus F T Richards New York and London Harper amp Brothers The Idiot at Home 1900 illus Richards New York and London Harper amp Brothers The Inventions of the Idiot 1904 New York and London Harper amp Brothers The Genial Idiot His Views and Reviews 1908 New York and London Harper amp Brothers Half Hours with the Idiot 1917 Boston Little Brown and Company Illustrations in Coffee and Repartee unsigned and The Idiot clearly signed F T Richards were not credited both available online at HDL The Library of Congress reports F T Richards credited on the title page of The Idiot at Home 1900 first edition 5 Associated Shades Originally the Associated Shades is an exclusive men s club in Hades whose members are the shades of famous people including Adam and Baron Munchausen but primarily historical writers Homer Confucius Shakespeare president Walter Raleigh Johnson and Boswell and many others All four books were illustrated by Peter Newell A House Boat on the Styx Being Some Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades 1895 New York Harper amp Brothers The Pursuit of the House Boat Being Some Further Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades Under the Leadership of Sherlock Holmes Esq 1897 New York Harper amp Brothers The Enchanted Type Writer 1899 collection New York and London Harper amp Brothers Mr Munchausen Being a True Account of Some of the Recent Adventures Beyond the Styx of the Late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich Sometimes Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder as Originally Reported for the Sunday Edition of the Gehenna Gazette by Its Special Interviewer the Late Mr Ananias Formerly of Jerusalem and Now First Transcribed from the Columns of that Journal 1901 featuring Baron Munchausen one of the Associated Shades Boston Noyes Platt Raffles series These two short story collections are sequels to the Raffles books by E W Hornung Mrs Raffles Being the Adventures of an Amateur Cracks Woman Narrated by Bunny 1905 edited by Bangs illus Albert Levering New York and London Harper amp Brothers R Holmes amp Co Being the Remarkable Adventures of Raffles Holmes Esq Detective and Amateur Cracksman by Birth 1906 illus Sydney Adamson New York and London Harper amp BrothersReferences edit Howard van Sinderen 1920 Memorial of Francis Sedgwick Bangs New York County Lawyers Association Year Book pp 232 234 a b c d Dallas Morning News January 22 1922 p 10 column 6 Retrieved November 27 2016 Profile House in Franconia Notch whitemountainhistory org Will Rogers Arthur Frank Wertheim Barbara Bair 1996 The Papers of Will Rogers The Early Years November 1879 April 1904 University of Oklahoma Press p 351 ISBN 9780806127453 OCLC 31331717 Richards F T Frederick Thompson 1864 1921 Library of Congress Authorities Retrieved August 31 2016 Other sources editBleiler Everett 1948 The Checklist of Fantastic Literature Chicago Shasta Publishers pp 39 40 John Kendrick Bangs The Literature Network Gale Steven H 1988 Encyclopedia of American Humorists Garland Publishing Inc pp 24 27 ISBN 9781317362272 Retrieved November 27 2016 Smith Geoffrey D 1997 American Fiction 1901 1925 A Bibliography Cambridge England Cambridge University Press pp 34 35 ISBN 9780521434690 Retrieved November 27 2016 External links edit nbsp Wikisource has original works by or about John Kendrick Bangs nbsp Wikiquote has quotations related to John Kendrick Bangs nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to John Kendrick Bangs Works by John Kendrick Bangs at Project Gutenberg Works by or about John Kendrick Bangs at Internet Archive Works by John Kendrick Bangs at LibriVox public domain audiobooks nbsp John Kendrick Bangs at IMDb The Elf man words by John Kendrick Bangs music by John Barnes Wells at the Sibley Music Library digital scores collection publication withdrawn 2011 06 22 for file quality upgrade John Kendrick Bangs at Fantastic Fiction John Kendrick Bangs at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database John Kendrick Bangs at Library of Congress with 104 library catalog records Bangs Family Papers Yale Collection of American Literature Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Retrieved from https en 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