Leonard Lyons
Author
1906 – 1976
Who was Leonard Lyons?
Leonard Lyons was an American newspaper columnist.
Leonard Sucher grew up in a large family of Jewish immigrants from the town of Horodenka in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His father Moses, a tailor, died when he was six. His mother sold cigarettes and candy on the Lower East Side. He graduated from the High School of Commerce, where his classmates included Lou Gehrig. He graduated from the City College of New York and was in the first class of graduates from St. John's University School of Law. He was admitted to the New York State bar in 1929, and practiced law for five years.
As a side activity, Leonard Sucher began a weekly column for the English-language page of the Jewish Daily Forward, called "East of Broadway". He applied for a post as a Broadway columnist with the New York Post, and won the job. The editor of the Post gave Sucher an alternative last name, Lyons, for professional use, and thus he became "Leonard Lyons", an alliterative name reminiscent of Walter Winchell, another noted newspaper columnist of the day. Lyons' first column appeared May 20, 1934, under the banner of "The Lyons Den", a name devised by Walter Winchell. Lyons worked on "The Lyons Den" 6 days per week, producing as many columns per week, covering theater, movies, politics and art, a total of approximately 12,000 columns. He was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Carl Sandburg once said of Lyons:
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- Born
- Sep 10, 1906
New York City - Also known as
- Leonard Sucher
- Parents
- Spouses
- Sylvia Shoenberger
(1934/11/30 - 1976/10/07)
- Sylvia Shoenberger
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- New York City
- Died
- 1976
New York City
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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