St. Clair McKelway
St. Clair McKelway | |
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Born | February 13, 1905 Charlotte |
Died | January 10, 1980 (aged 74) New York City |
Occupation | Journalist, writer |
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St. Clair McKelway (February 13, 1905 – January 10, 1980) was a writer and editor for The New Yorker magazine beginning in 1933.
Childhood
McKelway was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, to
Career
He began his journalistic career at the
The New Yorker
McKelway came to The New Yorker at the behest of
In 1950, he collected several of his pieces for The New Yorker in the book True Tales from the Annals of Crime & Rascality. One article from that collection was the basis for the 1950 movie Mister 880, starring Edmund Gwenn as a small-time counterfeiter of one dollar bills, who eluded the United States Secret Service for ten years, from 1938 to 1948.[5] St. Clair McKelway also wrote screenplays for two other movies in 1948: Sleep, My Love, directed by Douglas Sirk, and The Mating of Millie, starring Glenn Ford and Evelyn Keyes. He published the book The Edinburgh Caper: A One-Man International Plot, based on a New Yorker article,[6] in 1962.
In 2010, Bloomsbury USA published a paperback-original collection of 18 of McKelway's works, Reporting at Wit's End: Tales from the New Yorker (
Personal life
McKelway was married five times, including to the writer
St. Clair McKelway died at the DeWitt Nursing Home in Manhattan on January 10, 1980.[9]
He should not be confused with his great-uncle, also named St. Clair McKelway, the editor of the Brooklyn Eagle.[1][9]
Bibliography
Books
- Gossip: The Life And Times Of Walter Winchell (1940)
- True Tales from the Annals of Crime and Rascality (1951)
- The Edinburgh Caper: A One-Man International Plot (1962)
- The Big Little Man from Brooklyn (1969)
- Reporting at Wit's End: Tales from The New Yorker (2010)
Articles
- McKelway, St. Clair (January 1, 1949). "Annals of Crime: The Wily Wilby - I". The New Yorker. Vol. 24, no. 45. pp. 23–33. Part 1 of a report on Ralph Marshall Wilby.
- McKelway, St. Clair (January 8, 1949). "Annals of Crime: The Wily Wilby - II". The New Yorker. Vol. 24, no. 46. pp. 34–47. Part 2 of a report on Ralph Marshall Wilby.
Essays
"An Affix for Birds," in A Subtreasury of American Humor, edited by
References
- ^ a b c Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, Volume 4, edited by William Stevens Powell, Univ of North Carolina Press, p. 158.
- ^ a b c Weingarten, Marc (February 14, 2010). "On the crime beat with St. Clair McKelway". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ "New York Public Library, New Yorker Records". Archived from the original on July 9, 2007. Retrieved January 19, 2008.
- ^ a b Obituary for St. Clair McKelway by William Shawn, The New Yorker, January 28, 1980
- ^ "IMDB listing for St. Clair McKelway". IMDb. Retrieved January 19, 2008.
- ^ McKelway, St Clair (October 6, 1962). "THE EDINBURGH CAPER". The New Yorker – via www.newyorker.com.
- ^ "Bottoms up". The Economist. February 25, 2010.
- ^ Meade, Marion (March 11, 2010). "Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney". Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – via Amazon.
- ^ a b "St. Clair McKelway; novelist, playwright". New York Daily News. January 11, 1980. p. 34. Retrieved December 8, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.