Benjamin De Casseres | |
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 Benjamin De Casseres Leslie's Weekly, Oct. 29, 1921 | |
| Born | April 3, 1873 Philadelphia, PA, United States |
| Died | December 6, 1945 (aged 72) 593 Riverside Drive, New York City, NY, United States |
| Resting place | Ferncliff Cemetery, Ardsley, NY |
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| Subject | politics, philosophy, drama, movies |
| Literary movement | fin de siècle, Dada |
| Notable works | "Moth-Terror" |
| Spouse | Adele Mary "Bio" Terrill De Casseres (1919–1945) |
| Relatives | Baruch Spinoza (collateral descendant) |
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Benjamin De Casseres (April 3, 1873 – December 7, 1945) (often DeCasseres) was an American journalist, critic, essayist and poet. He was born in Philadelphia and began working at the Philadelphia Press at an early age, but spent most of his professional career in New York City, where he wrote for various newspapers including The New York Times, The Sun and The New York Herald.[1] He was married to author Bio De Casseres, and corresponded with prominent literary figures of his time, including H. L. Mencken,[2] Edgar Lee Masters,[3] and Eugene O'Neill.[4] He was a distant relative of Baruch Spinoza[2] and was of Sephardic descent.[5]
- ^ "De Casseres Dies; Author, Poet", The New York Times, 7 December 1945, archived from the original on 4 May 2014, retrieved 4 May 2014
- ^ a b Stratton, Matthew (2014). The Politics of Irony in American Modernism. Fordham University Press.
- ^ BENJAMIN DE CESSARES. Papers. (PDF) (Rare Books and Manuscripts Division Accession Sheet), Accessioned by Robert Sink, New York Public Library, March 1982, 47 M 52; 63 M 41A; 73 M 47, archived (PDF) from the original on 4 May 2014, retrieved 4 May 2014
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ Halmann, Ulrich, ed. (1987), Eugene O'Neill: Comments on the Drama and the Theater, Gunter Narr Verlag Tübingen, pp. 71–2, 181–2, 187
- ^ Rottenberg, Dan (1996), "Caceres", Finding Our Fathers: A Guidebook to Jewish Genealogy, Genealogical Publishing Co., p. 187, ISBN 9780806311517