John Kendrick Bangs

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John Kendrick Bangs (1922)

John Kendrick Bangs (born May 27, 1862 in Yonkers , New York , † January 21, 1922 in Atlantic City , New Jersey ) was an American writer, humorist and satirist . He is one of the most famous American humorists of the late 19th century.

Bangs, son of a New York lawyer, studied from 1880 to 1883 at Columbia University , where he was editor of the literary magazine. In 1984 he went to Life magazine ; further stations were from 1888 Harper's Magazine , Harper's Bazaar and Harper's Young People . From 1899 to 1901 he was the editor of Harper's Weekly . In 1901 he left Harper & Brothers to work for New Metropolitan Magazine , then in 1904 he switched to Puck , the first successful American satirical magazine.

His works A House-Boat on the Styx and Pursuit of the House-Boat were the trigger for the classification of a subgenre of fantasy literature as Bangsian Fantasy . But he also wrote political satire, such as Alice in Blunderland in 1907, An Iridescent Dream , a parody of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland , in which he criticized taxation, greed for capitalism and corruption.

Bangs was married twice. He had three sons with his first wife, Agnes Hyde. After Agne's death in 1903, he married Mary Gray. The two moved from Yonkers to Ogunquit , Maine , in 1907 , where Bangs died of stomach cancer in 1922. He was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery , Brooklyn .

Works (selection)

  • Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica (1895)
  • A House-Boat on the Styx (1895)
  • Pursuit of the House-Boat (1897)
  • The Enchanted Type-Writer (1899)
  • Alice in Blunderland, An Iridescent Dream (1907)

literature

  • Francis Hyde Bangs: John Kendrick Bangs: humorist of the nineties , Knopf, 1941

Web links

Commons : John Kendrick Bangs  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography at bookrags.com
  2. ↑ Entry at Find A Grave
personal data
SURNAME Bangs, John Kendrick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bangs, John K.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer, humorist, and satirist
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Yonkers
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1922
Place of death Atlantic City