Walter B. Pitkin

Walter Boughton Pitkin ( born February 6, 1878 in Ypsilanti, Michigan, † January 25, 1953 in Palo Alto, California ) was an American psychologist, journalist and author who was known primarily for his book Life Begins at Forty.

Life

Pitkin studied post-school at the University of Michigan and earned a Bachelor of Arts there in 1900. After he studied 1900-1905 at the Theological Seminary in Hartford, he was from 1905 to 1909 Lecturer in Psychology at Columbia University. He was also the 1907-1908 editorial board member at the New York Tribune, one of the leading and most influential newspapers in the United States, and then from 1909 to 1910 in the newspaper The New York Evening Post.

In 1912 he accepted an appointment as a professor of journalism at Columbia University and taught at these more than thirty years until his retirement in 1943. Besides this teaching, he was from 1927 to 1930 and editor of Parents Magazine, a company founded in 1926 monthly magazine for young parents, and at the same time from 1927 to 1928 Managing Editor for the Americas of the Encyclopædia Britannica. Pitkin was also the founder of the Institute of Life Planning (1932 ) and 1939 by The American Majority and worked from 1935 to 1938 as editor of the Farm Journal, before handing this function to Wheeler McMillen.

Publications

In addition to his journalistic activities and his teaching, he was also the author of numerous popular books that dealt in particular with the aging and the life from the age of forty, and sometimes early appeared in German translation. His best-known books include:

  • The Art of Rapid Reading ( 1929)
  • Capitalism Carries On (1935 )
  • Take it Easy: The Art of Relaxation (1935, German title Do you life easy, 1936)
  • Careers for Youth (1936 )
  • Careers After Forty (1937 )
  • More power to you (1938, German title More power to you, 1938)
  • Making Good Before Forty (1939 )
  • Seeing Our Country (1939 )
  • The Best Years (1946, German title The Best Years: It was not until age one is man, 1953)
  • Road to a Richer Life (1949 )

In addition, his memoirs published in 1944 under the title of On My Own.

External links and sources

  • Works by or about Walter B. Pitkin in the catalog that German national library
  • Walter B. Pitkin in the Notable Names Database (English)
  • TIME MAGAZINE: HEROES: Pitkin on Ice (15 January 1940)
  • Works by Walter B. Pitkin in Internet Archive
  • Journalist (United States)
  • Psychologist
  • Author
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Literature ( English )
  • Literature (United States)
  • Non-fiction
  • University teachers (Columbia University)
  • Americans
  • Born in 1878
  • Died in 1953
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