Fred Feldkamp

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Fred J. Feldkamp (March 2, 1914 - December 7, 1981) was an American writer, editor and film producer.

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In the late 1930s, Feldkamp edited a magazine called For Men that carried stories by authors such as Irving Wallace, Zane Grey, James Thurber and Will Cuppy. In 1949, he directed a film called Crusade in Europe: War Declared!. Films he produced were Operation Manhunt (1954) and The Silken Affair (1956). Feldkamp was a close friend of humorist Will Cuppy. After Cuppy died in 1949, Feldkamp sorted through thousands of Cuppy's notes to finish writing The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody, a satire on history that Cuppy had been working on for many years. It appeared in 1950. In 1951, Feldkamp published a comic almanac, How to Get from January to December, based on more of Cuppy's notes. Feldkamp wrote two books of his own on travel: The Good Life...or What's Left of It (1972) ISBN 978-0-06-122480-5, which he co-authored with his wife Phyllis; and Not Everybody's Europe (1976) ISBN 978-0-06-122481-2.