Eugene Kinkead (writer)

For the American politician, see Eugene F. Kinkead.

Eugene Kinkead
Born(1906-09-18)September 18, 1906
New York, N.Y.
DiedAugust 8, 1992(1992-08-08) (aged 85)
Tarrytown, New York[1]
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
SpouseKatharine Theobald
Children4
FatherEugene F. Kinkead

Eugene Kinkead was an American journalist and staff writer and editor at The New Yorker for 58 years. A World War Two war correspondent described as New Yorker founding editor Harold Ross's "favorite gumshoe",[2] Kinkead was an editor of the magazine's "The Talk of the Town" department for many years, and the author of seven books about nature and history, fiction, poetry, profiles, and light verse.

  1. ^ Daniels 1992.
  2. ^ Thurber, James (1959). The Years with Ross (4th edition. Little, Brown & Company (BOMC) ed.). Little, Brown & Company. p. 208.