Burton Rascoe

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1892 – 1957

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Who was Burton Rascoe?

Arthur Burton Rascoe, was an American journalist, editor and literary critic of the New York Herald Tribune.

Born in Fulton, Kentucky to Matthew L. Rascoe and Elizabeth Burton Rascoe, Rascoe grew up in Shawnee, Oklahoma. He was class president at Shawnee High School and participated in sports while also working for the local newspaper. Feeling confined to the small town and his increasing more open-minded views he left school before graduation and moved to Chicago. From 1911 until 1913, he attended the University of Chicago where he joined Sigma Nu. While still a student, he started writing for the Chicago Tribune, where he continued working until 1920.

In 1922, he became literary editor of the New York Tribune. He continued in that position until a merger turned the paper into the New York Herald Tribune in 1924. The writing and editorial staff he assembled included writers who became well-respected: Isabel Paterson and Will Cuppy.

Rascoe continued to hold high-profile editorial jobs in the field of literary criticism and to write books of his own about literature and authors. His best-known work, Titans of Literature, appeared in 1932. He also authored Before I Forget, an autobiography of sorts revealing much of his upbringing in Oklahoma. The book gives a good insight to life for a young man during the early days of the 20th century. Other works include Theodore Dreiser, A Bookman's Daybook,The Joys of Reading: Life's Greatest Pleasure and Belle Starr, The Bandit Queen.

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Born
Oct 22, 1892
Fulton
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • University of Chicago
Lived in
  • Kentucky
Died
Mar 19, 1957
New York City

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on July 23, 2013

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