George Horace Lorimer
| George Horace Lorimer | |
|---|---|
 Lorimer in 1922 | |
| Born | Louisville, Kentucky, USA |
| Died | Wyncote, Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Journalist, Author, Editor |
| Known for |
The Saturday Evening Post Curtis Publishing Company |
George Horace Lorimer (October 6, 1867 – October 22, 1937[1]) was an American journalist and author. He is best known as the editor of The Saturday Evening Post. During his editorial reign, the Post rose from a circulation of several thousand to over a million. He is credited with promoting or discovering a large number of American writers, e.g. Jack London.[2]
Lorimer was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of the Rev. George C. Lorimer and Belle Burford Lorimer. He attended Moseley High School in Chicago, Colby College, and Yale University.[3] In 1899 he became editor-in-chief of The Saturday Evening Post,[4] and remained in charge until the last day of 1936, about a year before his death from throat cancer.[1] He served also as vice president, president, and chairman of Curtis Publishing Company, which published the Post.
Books
In the early 1900s Lorimer published several books, including
- Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son, being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy."
its sequel
- Old Gorgon Graham - More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
and
- The False Gods
The Letters from a Self-Made Merchant was a quite well known book in the early 20th century. In Dorothy Sayers's "Whose Body?" (1923), a copy of the book, in a Morocco binding, is mentioned as being at the bedside of a self-made British financier.
Estate
The remains of Lorimer's estate in Wyncote, Pennsylvania, is now the campus of Ancillae Assumpta Academy. Most of Lorimer Park, a 213-acre (0.86 km2) public park located in Abington Township, Pennsylvania, was a bequest from the Lorimer family to the citizens of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Friedrich, Otto. Decline and Fall. Harper and Row, 1970, p. 10
- ↑ Tebbel, John. George Horace Lorimer and the Saturday Evening Post. Doubleday, 1948.
- ↑ Catherine Hanley, George Horace Lorimer. 2006.
- ↑ SaturdayEveningPost.com
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- Works by George Horace Lorimer at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about George Horace Lorimer at Internet Archive
- Works by George Horace Lorimer at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Time Magazine obituary from November 1937
- George Horace Lorimer Quotations
- George Horace Lorimer at Find a Grave
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