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Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (June 23, 1876 – March 11, 1944) was an American author, humorist, editor and columnist from Paducah, Kentucky, who relocated to New York in 1904, living there for the remainder of his life. He wrote for the New York World, Joseph Pulitzer 's newspaper, as the highest paid staff reporter in the United States.
Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (* 23. Juni 1876 in Paducah, Kentucky; † 10. März 1944 in New York City) war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller, Journalist, Kolumnist und Schauspieler .
Irvin S. Cobb was an American journalist and humorist best known for his colloquial handling of familiar situations with ironical, penetrating humour. At 19 Cobb became managing editor of the Paducah Daily News, and in 1904 he went to New York City, where he became a staff writer for the Evening.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
25. Sept. 2017 · Today, Cobb is remembered best for his sharp wit expressed through his fiction. As a product of Reconstruction and the Jim Crow South, Cobb’s subtle racism has largely denied him prominence in American memory, but his work provides a unique insight into the prevailing mind-set of his time.
- William E. Ellis
In “The Humor of the Self-Kidder,” published in the Saturday Review of Literature, White wrote: “This book is only incidentally the ‘life story’ of Irvin S. Cobb. It is an adventure in humorous American humor. Taking it by and large, the humor of Irvin Cobb’s autobiography, which bubbles like eternal Pierian springs on every page ...
In Irvin S. Cobb: The Rise and Fall of a Southern Humorist, historian William E. Ellis examines the life of this significant writer. Though a consummate wordsmith and a talented observer of the comical in everyday life, Cobb was a product of the Reconstruction era and the Jim Crow South.
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