Irvin S. Cobb
Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb ( born June 23, 1876 in Paducah, Kentucky, † March 10, 1944 in New York City ) was an American writer, journalist, columnist and actor.
Biography
Cobb began after the school a career in journalism and rose within a short time as managing editor of the Paducah Daily News, before becoming in 1898 a columnist for The Cincinnati Post. After working as a columnist for the Louisville Evening Post he was 1901-1904 managing editor of the Paducah Daily Democrat. In 1904 he became a contributor to the New York Evening Sun, where he was most recently 1905-1911 again working as a columnist. He then in 1911 became an employee at the Saturday Evening Post, before he finally was 1922-1932 journalist at the magazine Cosmopolitan.
In addition to his journalistic work, he was the author of numerous books. In addition to the collections of short stories such as Back Home (1912 ), The Escape of Mr. trim: His Plight and Other plights (1913 ), From Place to Place: Stories About Ourselves (1920), Prose and Cons (1926 ), one way to Stop a Panic ( 1933) and Faith, Hope, and Charity ( 1934), he wrote the novels J. Poindexter, Colored (1922 ), Chivalry peak ( 1927) and Red likker: A Novel Of Old and New Kentucky ( 1929).
For his short story Snake Doctor, he received the 1922 O. Henry Prize. Notoriety he achieved also by the stories about "Judge Priest ," which were based on the life of the famous Judge William Pitman Bishop of Kentucky. In this series appeared Old Judge Priest (1915 ), Down Yonder with Judge Priest ( 1932) and Judge Priest Turns Detective ( 1937).
His other publications which are essentially dealing with contemporary issues such as the First World War, but also his own experiences as a journalist, among other Cobb 's Anatomy (1912 ), Cobb's Bill of Fare (1913 ), The Red Glutton With The German Army At The Front (1915), Speaking of Operations (1915), Paths of Glory (1915), Fibble, DD! (1916 ), Speaking of Prussians (1917 ), The Glory of the Coming ( 1918), The Life of the Party (1919), From Place to Place ( 1920), The Abandoned Farmers (1920 ), A Plea for Old Cap Collier ( 1921), Stickfuls: Compositions of a Newspaper Minion (1923 ), Kansas, Shall We Let Her civilize civilize Her or Us? (1924 ), Many Laughs for Many Days: Another Year's Supply (365 ) of His Favorite Stories as Told By Irving S. Cobb (1925 ), Here Comes the Bride ( 1925), alias Ben Alibi (1925 ), On to Iceland deed cost $ 24.00 (1926 ), This Man's World ( 1929), Incredible Truth (1931 ) and Murder Day by Day ( 1933).
Cobb, who was from 1920 to 1938 a member of the prestigious Dutch Treat Club, finally wrote 1941 his memoirs under the title Exit Laughing: The Autobiography of Irvin S. Cobb.
In the 1930s, he had some appearances as a film actor as in Steamboat Round the Bend ( 1935) by John Ford, starring Will Rogers and The Young in Heart ( " rogue with a heart", 1938) by Richard Wallace with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Paulette Goddard. He was also the host of the Oscars 1935.