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Name |
Cary, Lucian |
Born |
Jan. 1, 1886 |
Birthplace |
Hamlin, Kansas |
Places of residence |
On Sept.17, 1914, the Lake Bluff Chat noted that "writer Lucian Cary has moved to Lake Bluff". 708 Park Place was Lucian's home. Connecticut |
Titles & honors |
Professor of English at Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana from 1908-1910. |
Nationality |
American |
Occupation |
Novelist, Short Story Writer, Editor, and Screenwriter Worked as a newspaper reporter and editor in Chicago - "Chicago Tribune" reporter from 1910-1913. - Library editor of the "Chicago Evening Post" from 1913-1914. - Acting editor of "The Dial", a Chicago political review and literary criticism magazine, from 1914-1916. Wrote reviews for "Poetry" magazine as early as November 1913 and wrote "Literary Journalism in Chicago", the lead article in the June-July 1915 "Little Review". He was recruited to New York by "Colliers Magazine" in 1916 amd made his debut as a fiction writer in the Jan. 26, 1918, issue of that magazine. - Cary contributed over 60 stories to "Colliers Magazine", "The Saturday Evening Post" and other national magazines. Became well known in the 1920s for writing "Blue Ribbon Short Stories" that were published in newspapers nationwide. Gun editor for True Magazine for over 20 years. |
Role |
Writer |
Relationships |
Colleague of Margaret Anderson |
Spouse |
Augusta Stromme - m. Oct. 19, 1906 |
Children |
Three |
Notes |
In the 1920s and '30s several of his short stories were made into movies; also wrote screenplays for at least three Hollywood movies. |
