Wainwright Evans

John Wainwright Evans (born October 13, 1883 in Alpena , Michigan , † after 1957) was an American journalist and author.

life and work

The son of an Episcopal clergyman studied at Princeton University , where he earned his bachelor's degree in 1907 . Evans became a reporter for the New York Herald in 1908 and joined the St. Louis Globe Democrat in 1910 . From 1911 to 1915 he taught journalism in the English faculty at the University of Arkansas . In 1915 he became an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Kansas . He resigned two years later to become a member of the editorial board of Nation's Business magazine in Washington, DC .

From 1921 Evans worked as a freelance writer. When he mid-1920s with the publisher Macfadden Bernarr was under contract, he was called in 1924 to deal with the juvenile court judge and social reformer Ben B. Lindsey in a series of articles on "The Revolt of Modern Youth" ( The revolution of modern youth ) working for Macfadden's Physical Culture magazine . The series met with a great response, was also published as a book and translated into various languages. At the invitation of the editor of women's magazine Red Book Magazine Lindsey Evans and 1926-27 wrote another series about the marriage , under the title The companionate Marriage ( The companionate marriage was) also appeared in book form and translated. The proposals for comradeship marriage, “a legally concluded marriage with legally recognized birth control and the right for childless couples to divorce at any time with mutual consent without usually having to pay maintenance contributions,” were highly controversial. In later years Evans also dealt with occultism and parapsychology .

Evans had been with Edith R. Claggett since 1908, with whom he had a son, astronomer John W. Evans , and a daughter.

Publications

• with Ben B. Lindsey: The revolt of modern youth. Boni & Liveright, New York 1925.
  • German translation a. Arrangement by Toni Harten-Hoencke and Friedrich Schönemann: The revolution of modern youth. German Verl.-Anst, Stuttgart 1925.
• with Ben B. Lindsey: The companionate marriage. Boni & Liveright, New York 1927.
  • German from Rudolf Nutt: The comradeship marriage. German Verl.-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1928.
• The Thunder Bird. The story of fire. T. Nelson and Sons, New York 1934.
• Is Sherlock Holmes alive? . Reader's Digest Association, Pleasantville, NY 1954.
• and Paul Calle: What is there a real Sherlock Holmes? . Macfadden Publications, New York, NY 1954.
• Introduction. In: William McDougall . Explorer of the Mind. Studies in Psychical Research . ed. by Raymond van Over and Laura Oteri. New York 1967, pp. 3-33.

literature

• J. Gordon Melton (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology . Vol. 1: A-L. 5th. edition, Gale Group, Detroit 2001, p. 523 f.
• Charles Larsen: The Good Fight. The Life and Times of Ben B. Lindsey. Quadrangle Books, Chicago 1972.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Quoted from Ben B. Lindsey and Wainwright Evans: Die Kameradschaftsehe . DVA, Stuttgart 1928, p. 9.