Rudolph Edgar Block

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Rudolph Edgar Block (December 6, 1870 – April 29, 1940) was a Jewish American journalist, columnist, and author. Much of his writing was done under the pen name of Bruno Lessing.[2]

Biography

Rudolph Block began his career as a journalist in 1888. He worked first as a news reporter on The New York Sun and later joined The New York World. In 1896 he became the editor of the comic supplements to the Hearst newspapers,[citation needed] a position he held for the next 28 years.[1] During his tenure he supplied text for The Yellow Kid[4] and helped to create such popular series as Happy Hooligan and The Katzenjammer Kids.[1] As "Bruno Lessing" his short stories chronicled life in the Jewish ghetto of New York City.[5] Between 1905 and 1909, many of these tales were published by Cosmopolitan, which at that time was a literary magazine.[6] During the years 1915 – 1916 he also wrote a number of screenplays depicting the Jewish American experience.[7]

Ambrose Bierce, another frequent contributor to Cosmopolitan,[8] mentioned Block in his satirical work The Devil's Dictionary, recounting the author's alleged encounter with a prominent critic.[9] A short poem by Bierce, titled "Rudolph Block", had no apparent connection to the man himself.[10]

An avid traveler, Block wrote about his experiences in the daily newspaper column "Vagabondia", which was published from 1928 through 1939.[11][12] Along the way he amassed a collection of 1,400 walking sticks, although he himself walked unaided.[13] After his death, the collection of canes, each made from a unique type of wood, was donated to Yale University.[14]

Selected works

  • 1903 Children of Men[15]
  • 1909 Jake or Sam
  • 1914 With the Best Intention

References

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  1. ^ a b c William J. Burling, Bruno Lessing, vol. 28 of Dictionary of Literary Biography, (Detroit: Gale Research Co. 1984), pp. 133–136.
  2. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Bruno Lessing is Dead in Arizona". St. Petersburg Times. May 2, 1940. Retrieved October 20, 2024.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Bruno Lessing's Son Gets Post in Seattle" (PDF). Jewish Daily Bulletin. April 2, 1934. Retrieved October 19, 2024. also available at Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Bruno Lessing's Son Gets Post in Seattle". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. April 2, 1934. Archived from the original on September 20, 2022. Retrieved October 19, 2024.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Origins of the Kid: High Art". virginia.edu. Archived from the original on August 19, 2006.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Spack, Ruth (1994). "The Americanization of Shadrach Cohen". The International Story. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-65797-6.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Schneirov, Matthew (1994). The Dream of a New Social Order. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 242. ISBN 0-231-08290-8.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Bruno Lessing". IMDb. April 29, 1940. Retrieved October 19, 2024.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bierce, Ambrose (September 15, 2010). The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary. University of Georgia Press. p. 340. ISBN 978-0-8203-2634-4.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Devil's Dictionary: story". The Devil’s Dictionary daily definitions. Retrieved October 19, 2024.
  10. ^ Shapes Of Clay, vol. 4 of The Collected Works Of Ambrose Bierce, (New York & Washington: Neale Pub. Co., 1910) p. 373.
  11. ^ The New York American April 5, 1935
  12. ^ The Milwaukee Sentinel December 21, 1939
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Catalogue of a private collection of walking sticks. New York: Rudolph Block. 1920. OCLC 1041790652. OL 24601718M.
  14. ^ Rudolph Block's Collection: Canes Of Various Woods lumberjocks.com. Retrieved: January 27, 2014.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Lambert, Josh (2010). "Children of Men". American Jewish Fiction: A JPS Guide. Jewish Publication Society. p. 35. ISBN 9780827610026.
Articles
"The End of the Task"

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