Ely Jacques Kahn Jr.

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Ely Jacques Kahn Jr.
Born(1916-12-04)December 4, 1916
New York City, US
DiedMay 28, 1994(1994-05-28) (aged 77)
Holyoke, Massachusetts, US
Alma materHarvard University
OccupationWriter
Spouse
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(m. 1969)​
Parent
Relatives

Ely Jacques Kahn Jr. (December 4, 1916 – May 28, 1994) was an American writer with The New Yorker for five decades.[1]

Biography

Born in

U.S. Army
from 1941 to 1945. The New Yorker publishing 39 of his pieces on Army life that were later collected in book form.

His long career with the magazine resulted in numerous books on such varied subjects as

Archer Daniels Midland, and the Postal Inspection Service. However, his multi-part series on grain
, which was published in book form as "Staffs of Life" in 1985, was criticized by some as an example of the self-indulgent journalism that marked The New Yorker during the 1970s and '80s.

Kahn lived in

Scarborough-on-Hudson, New York, for more than 20 years, and was a member of the Briarcliff Manor Fire Department.[3] He taught writing at Columbia University
from 1974 to 1977.

His book The New Yorker and Me (New York: G.P. Putnam's, 1979) is a diary interspersed with memories of his life, the magazine, and its editor William Shawn—whom Kahn calls "The Iron Mouse." His 1987 diary was released as Year of Change: More about the New Yorker and Me (New York: Viking, 1988).

Death

Kahn died in a traffic accident on May 28, 1994, in Holyoke, Massachusetts, at the age of 77.[4]

Bibliography

Books

  • Army Life, 1942
  • G. I. Jungle, 1943
  • McNair
    : Educator of an Army,     1945
  • Fighting Divisions, 1945
  • The Voice, 1947(Sinatra)
  • Who, Me?, 1949
  • The Peculiar War, 1952
  • The Merry Partners: The Age and Stage of Harrigan and Hart, 1955
  • The Big Drink: The Story of Coca-Cola, 1960
  • The A Reporter Here and There, 1961
  • The Stragglers, 1962
  • The World of Swope, 1964
  • A Reporter in Micronesia, 1966
  • The Separated People: A Look at Contemporary South Africa, 1968
  • Harvard: Through Change and Through Storm, 1969
  • The Boston Underground Gourmet, 1972
  • The First Decade: A Report on Independent Black Africa, 1972
  • Fraud: The United States Postal Inspection Service and Some of the Fools and Knaves It Has Known, 1973
  • The American People, 1973
  • The China Hands: America's Foreign Service Officers and What Befell Them, 1975
  • Georgia from Rabun Gap to Tybee Light, 1978
  • Far-Flung and Footloose, 1979
  • The New Yorker and Me, 1979
  • Jock: The Life and Times of John Hay Whitney, 1981
  • The Staffs of Life, 1985
  • The Problem Solvers: A History of Arthur D. Little, Inc., 1986
  • Year of Change: More about the New Yorker and Me, 1988.
  • Supermarketer to the World: The Story of Dwayne Andreas, 1991.

Essays and reporting

  • "Encore les Marshmallows". The Talk of the Town. The New Yorker. 24 (47): 20–21. January 15, 1949.
  • "The gentleman from New York - I". The New Yorker. 25 (48): 31–45. January 21, 1950.[a]
  • "The gentleman from New York - II". The New Yorker. 25 (49): 30–42. January 28, 1950.[a]
  • "Notes and Comment". The Talk of the Town. The New Yorker. 25 (50): 21. February 4, 1950.[b]

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Notes
  1. ^
    Jacob K. Javits
    .
  2. ^ Refugees and Displaced Persons (DPs).

References

  1. ^ "E. J. Kahn, Jr. | The New Yorker". The New Yorker. 6 June 1994.
  2. ^ Weingarten, Marc (14 February 2010). "On the crime beat with St. Clair McKelway". Los Angeles Times.
  3. LCCN 00-093475
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  4. ^ "E. J. Kahn Jr., 77, Writer for The New Yorker," by Richard D. Lyons, The New York Times, May 29, 1994

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