Owen Johnson (writer)

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Owen McMahon Johnson (born August 27, 1878 in New York City , † January 27, 1952 in Vineyard Haven , Massachusetts ) was an American journalist and writer .

Life

Owen Johnson was a son of the politician Robert Underwood Johnson and his wife Katherine McMahon. He attended the Lawrenceville School ( Mercer County ) and founded the literary magazine "Lawrenceville Literary Magazine" there. He then studied at Yale University and was able to successfully complete this study in 1901.

Johnson married Mary Gault Stockly and went to Paris with her for some time . Back in the USA , he settled in New York with his wife. There she died in 1910 and soon afterwards he married the actress Esther Ellen Cobb . In 1909 he was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters .

At the beginning of the First World War he returned to Europe as a war correspondent for the New York Times and Collier’s magazine . In 1917 his marriage to EE Cobb was divorced and Johnson married Cecile Denise de la Garde for the third time, but she died the following year. In 1919 he married Catherine Sayre Barton, who died in 1921. In his fifth marriage, Johnson married Gertrude B. Le Boutillier. From these five marriages, Johnson had a total of five children.

After the end of the war, Johnson settled again in New York. There he worked as a journalist and tried to build on his earlier literary successes. In 1923 he went to Stockbridge, Massachusetts and lived there until the end of 1947. Then he settled in Vineyard Haven and stayed there for the rest of his life. He died on January 27, 1952 in Vineyard Haven and was buried there.

Works (selection)

stories
  • Murder in any degree . 1913.
Detective novels
  • Max Fargus . 1906.
  • The sixty first second . 1913.

literature

  • Armin Arnold u. a. (Ed.): Reclams Kriminalromanführer . Reclam, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-15-010278-2 , p. 211.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members: Owen Johnson. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 6, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Johnson, Owen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McMahon Johnson, Owen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1952
Place of death Vineyard Haven , Massachusetts