Clifton Fadiman

Clifton Fadiman ( born May 15, 1904 in Brooklyn, New York, † June 20, 1999 in Sanibel Iceland, Florida) was an American multi-talent. He worked as a writer, critic, narrator, author, translator, journalist, Bookworm, radio and television entertainer. He was a nephew of the famous eccentric genius William James Sidis.

Life

He was born in Brooklyn, the son of Russian immigrants. He was a gifted child who was four years old could read his first book and with 10 years of Homer, Sophocles, Dante, and Milton read and graduated in 1925 at the University.

From his first marriage to Elizabeth Rush came from his son Jonathan Rush. In his second marriage he was with Annalee Whitmore Jacoby, author and foreign correspondent during World War II in China, married for Time and Life. She later led to the name Annalee Jacoby Fadiman. From this marriage produced two children, son Kim and daughter Anne Fadiman.

He taught for two years of English at the Fieldston High School ( Bronx, New York) before he worked for ten years for Simon & Schuster and at the end of this time was Chief Editor. Ten more years (1933-1943) he was responsible for the New Yorker magazine in the field of book exhibition and a juror for the Book of the Month Club. From this period became famous citations in newspapers and magazines already come because of its numerous witty remarks and jokes.

Radio and television career

Clifton Fadiman was in USA in the fifties one of the first popular " funny witty intellectual types " on radio and TV From 1930 to 1948 he hosted the radio 's most popular quiz show, Information Please, which he in 1952 for the TV CBS - TV as a Thirteen -week summer replacement for the musical the Fred Waring Show Variety range reactivated (June- September). With the advent of television in the United States grew Fadimans popularity so that he appeared in many talk shows and new quiz shows moderated.

His longest -lasting shipment from July 1949 to March 1954 was This Is Show Business. It was transferred as one of the first regular broadcasts " from coast to coast " in CBS.

Swell

  • Biography in: " American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 195-196. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002
  • Party of One ( 1955).
  • The American Treasury 1455-1955 (1955, with Carl van Doren ed ) ISBN 0-06-011205-0
  • Voyages of Ulysses (1959 ) ISBN 0-584-63204-5
  • Enter, Conversing (1962).
  • Clifton Fadiman 's Fireside Reader 1964, ISBN 0-671-13940-1
  • Cricket's Choice (1974, with Marianne Carus ) ISBN 0-87548-318-6
  • Wine Buyers Guide 1977, ISBN 0-8109-1754-8
  • The World Treasury of Children's Literature book 1, 2, 3 ( 1984, 1985 ed ) ISBN 0-316-27302-3
  • World of the Short Story, 1988, ISBN 0-330-30132-2
  • A Toast to Wines and Spirits, 1989, ISBN 0-8109-2404-8
  • The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes (1991 ) ISBN 0-316-27305-8
  • The World of the short story: A 20th Century Collection ( 1990) ISBN 0-517-03400- X
  • The New Joys of Wine 1990 ISBN 0-8109-3652-6
  • The New Lifetime Reading Plan ™ 1997 ISBN 0-06-270208-4
  • Fantasia Mathematica, 1997 ( reprint, orig 1958) ISBN 0-387-94931-3
  • The Mathematical Magpie, 1998 ISBN 0-387-94950- X
  • The New Lifetime Reading Schedule: Revised and Expanded 1999 ISBN 0-06-272073-2
  • Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes (2000, with Andre Bernard) ISBN 0-316-08267-8
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