Paul Jordan-Smith
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Paul Jordan-Smith (October 14, 1885 – June 17, 1971) an American journalist, editor, and author from Los Angeles, California.
He produced an all-English edition of The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton, and, posing as the fictitious "Pavel Jerdanowitch", founded the Disumbrationist school of modern painting as a hoax.