Joseph Henry Jackson (1894–1955)
Autor(a) de Anybody's Gold: The Story of California's Mining Towns
About the Author
Obras por Joseph Henry Jackson
Tintypes in gold; four studies in robbery 3 exemplares
Why Steinbeck wrote The grapes of wrath 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta: The Celebrated California Bandit (1854) — Introdução, algumas edições — 142 exemplares
Mining camps, a study in American frontier government (1885) — Introdução, algumas edições — 29 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1894-07-21
- Data de falecimento
- 1955-07
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Madison, New Jersey, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Berkeley, California, USA
- Locais de residência
- Madison, New Jersey, USA
Berkeley, California, USA - Educação
- Lafayette College
- Ocupações
- book critic
editor - Relações
- Jackson, Charlotte Cobden (wife)
- Organizações
- Sunset
San Francisco Chronicle
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Joseph Henry Jackson was born in Madison, New Jersey on July 21, 1894, and received his schooling in the East. After World War I he moved to California and began his literary career. He was associate editor and managing editor of Sunset magazine from 1920-1926, and editor from 1926-1928. In 1929 he became literary editor of the San Francisco Argonaut, and in 1931 he joined the staff of the San Francisco Chronicle, also as literary editor. He gained a wide following with his daily book review column, "A Bookman's Notebook", and with his radio program, "The Reader's Guide", broadcast over NBC's Pacific network. In addition to his work on the Chronicle, he wrote a number of books, including Mexican Interlude(1936), Tintypes in Gold (1939), Anybody's Gold(1941), and My San Francisco (1953), and edited several more -notably Continent's End, a collection of California writing (1944), San Francisco Murders (1947) and The Western Gate: a San Francisco Reader (1952).
Membros
Críticas
Listas
Edgar Award (1)
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 21
- Also by
- 4
- Membros
- 251
- Popularidade
- #91,086
- Avaliação
- 3.6
- Críticas
- 12
- ISBN
- 9