Allan Eugene Updegraff

Allan Eugene Updegraff (born February 14, 1883 in Grinnell , Iowa , † December 7, 1965 in Paris , France ) was an American writer , poet and journalist .

Life

Allan Eugene Updegraff was a descendant of Abraham Isack's op den Graeff , who belonged to the so-called " Original 13 ", the first closed group of German emigrants to America . Updegraff was born the eldest of four sons to William R. and Laura A. Updegraff in Grinnell, Iowa. His parents had their farm in Grinnell, later near Washington , Iowa, and then in Springfield , Missouri . Two of his brothers, Lawrence Vale (1884–1961) and Herbert H. (1889–1961), later became journalists. His third brother, William David (1885–1960), had a farm in California. He began studying at Yale University , which he later dropped out. He then worked as a journalist for various daily newspapers, including Yale Monthly .

Updegraff married the Canadian writer Edith Summers (1884-1956) in 1908 , with whom he had two children. The marriage failed about five years later. After the divorce, he married the freelance writer Dora Loues Miller, with whom he also had two children. With the exception of two years, both lived in Paris from 1923 onwards.

Works (selection)

• 1916: A Gentleman from Jupiter
• 1917: Second Youth: Being, in the Main, Some Account of the Middle Comedy in the Life of a New York Bachelor: A Novel
• 1918: A Novel of Modernistic Truth and Intruding War
• 1927: Whatever We Do
• 1960: Grantham's Moor: And Collected Poems, Some old

Web links

• Allan Eugene Updegraff in the Internet Movie Database (English)