John Herrmann
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| Born | John Theodore Herrmann November 9, 1900 University of Munich Mexico City College |
| Occupation | Writer |
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John Theodore Herrmann (November 9, 1900 – April 9, 1959) was a writer in the 1920s and 1930s and is alleged to have introduced Whittaker Chambers to Alger Hiss.[citation needed]
Biography
Herrmann was born in Lansing, Michigan in 1900. He lived in Paris in the 1920s, as part of its famous expatriate American writers' circle, when he met his first wife, Josephine Herbst in 1924. Herbst enjoyed more success as a writer than Herrmann; the couple lived a few years in rural Pennsylvania, and were friends with Katherine Anne Porter, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, William Carlos Williams, and others.
Herrmann's first novel, What Happens, was original published in Paris by
After returning to Michigan in 1924, Herrmann wrote a manuscript about anti-German backlash during World War I but was unable to get it published. Researcher Sara Kosiba found the manuscript in the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin and arranged to have it published in 2018 under the title "Foreign Born."
In 1932, Herrmann's short novel, "The Big Short Trip," tied with Thomas Wolfe for the Scribner's Magazine short novel prize.
In 1934, he went to work with
In 1940, Herrmann divorced Herbst and married Ruth Tate. He served in the
Herrmann applied in March 1949 to
Death
Herrmann died near the Pacific Ocean in April 1959, at the Hotel Navidad, in Barra de Navidad, Jalisco, Mexico from a heart attack.[citation needed] He is buried at Mount Hope Cemetery in Lansing, Michigan.[3]
Publications
Books
- What Happens. Contact Editions, Paris 1926 (reissued 2015 by Hastings College Press, with new introduction by Sara Kosiba)
- Foreign Born. Hastings College Press, 2018.
- Summer is Ended (1932)
- The Salesman (1939)
Other Publications by John Herrmann
"The Big Short Trip." Scribner's Magazine August 1932, p. 65-69, 113-128.
Notes
- ^ Elinor Langer, "The Secret Drawer," The Nation, May 30, 1994, p. 756
- ISBN 978-0-446-32853-1
- ^ Gabbara, Princess (2017-08-10). "Lansing's interesting history continues to the grave". Lansing State Journal. Retrieved 2021-10-31.
References
- "Bars Book Experts at Obscenity Trial." The New York Times 4 October 1927: page 10.
- "Book About Youth is Found Obscene." The New York Times 5 October 1927: page 28.
- "John Herrmann Dies." The New York Times 19 May 1959: page 33.
- "Herrmann Rites Set." Lansing State Journal 17 April 1959: page 31.
- Stephen Koch, Double Lives: Spies and Writers in the Secret Soviet War of Ideas Against the West (Free Press; 1994) ISBN 0-02-918730-3
- The death of Joan Vollmer Burroughs[permanent dead link]
- Chambers, Whittaker (1952). Witness. New York: Random House. p. 799. LCCN 52005149.
- "A man was tarred and feathered on a Lansing golf course. It became part of this novel," "Lansing State Journal" 9 November, 2018
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