Howard Brubaker

Howard Brubaker
Born	(1882-06-26)June 26, 1882 Warsaw, Indiana
Died	February 2, 1957(1957-02-02) (aged 74) Greens Farms, Connecticut
Nationality	American
Known for	Magazine editor and writer

Howard Brubaker (June 26, 1882 - February 2, 1957) was an American magazine editor and writer.

Brubaker was born in Warsaw, Indiana and attended Indiana University. ^[1] In 1902 he moved to New York, where he lived at the University Settlement House for several years before becoming an associate editor for Success from 1907 to 1911. ^[2] He went on to become an editor for Collier's Weekly (1914–19) and The Liberator (1918-24) ^[2] as well as a contributor to many other magazines including The New Yorker , The Saturday Evening Post , Life , The New Republic and Country Gentleman .

He published over 100 short stories and a number of non-fiction pieces on contemporary affairs, especially national politics, in which he tended to espouse a left-of-center viewpoint. ^[3] He was best known for "Of All Things", a by-liner column that ran weekly in The New Yorker magazine from 1925 to 1951. ^[2] This column was composed of a series of brief paragraphs that offered humorous and satirical comments on contemporary happenings and personages. Many of these witticisms were reprinted in newspapers across the country. ^[3] Brubaker died at his home in Greens Farms, Connecticut, at the age of 74. ^[4]

Bibliography

• Brubaker, Howard (1917). Ranny, otherwise Randolph Harrington Dukes : a tale of those activities which made him an important figure in his town, in his family – and in other families. New York: Harper & Brothers.
• — (May 9, 1925). "Of all things". The New Yorker. 1 (12): 17.
• — (May 16, 1925). "Of all things". The New Yorker. 1 (13): 17.
• — (May 23, 1925). "Of all things". The New Yorker. 1 (14): 19.
• — (May 30, 1925). "Of all things". The New Yorker. 1 (15): 6.
• — (June 6, 1925). "Of all things". The New Yorker. 1 (16): 6.
• — (June 13, 1925). "Of all things". The New Yorker. 1 (17): 6.
• Ray, Felix (1932). White House blues : Elmer Durkin, the garrulous newsdealer, expresses his thoughts upon the current administration. Illustrated by Frueh. New York: Vanguard Press. ^[a]
• Brubaker, Howard (January 1, 1938). "Of all things". The New Yorker. 13 (46): 30.

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Notes

1. Felix Ray is a Brubaker pseudonym.

References

1. "Notes". Deseret News . July 28, 1917. Retrieved November 20, 2014.
2. Thompson, Donald E. (1974). Indiana Authors and their Books 1917-1966. Crawfordsville, Indiana: R.R. Donnelly & Sons Company. p. 86. Retrieved November 20, 2014.
3. The Fales Library Guide to the Howard Brubaker Papers Archived 2009-11-20 at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved November 20, 2014
4. "A Final Paragraph". The New Yorker . New York: F-R Publishing Company. February 16, 1957. p. 144.