Clarence A. Barnes Jr. (usually referred to as Clare Barnes Jr. during his days as a popular author) (c. 1907 – February 2, 1992) was an American author and advertising agency art director. He was best known for his series of books, starting in 1949 with ''White Collar Zoo'', which featured animal photos with humorous captions. ''White Collar Zoo'' was the number 1 non-fiction bestseller of 1949 on the
''New York Times'' Best Seller list, and its followup ''Home Sweet Zoo'' was number 4.
[Korda, Michael]
Making the List: A Cultural History of the American Bestseller, 1900-1999
p.97 (2001)[(1 May 1950)]
Collegiate Cat
'' Life''[(9 May 1949)]
Speaking of Pictures...
''Life''[Poore, Charles (7 July 1949)]
Animals are very much like people
'' The New York Times''
Barnes was born in
Boston and received an undergraduate degree from
Yale University in 1929. He worked for a number of advertising agencies. He died in his
Manhattan home on February 2, 1992, of emphysema at age 85. He also had a home in
Edgartown, Massachusetts
Edgartown is a tourist destination on the island of Martha's Vineyard in Dukes County, Massachusetts, United States, for which it is the county seat.
It was once a major whaling port, with historic houses that have been carefully preserved. Tod ...
.
[(11 February 1992)]
Clarence Barnes, 85, Author and Illustrator
''The New York Times''[(12 May 1950)]
'' The Boston Globe''
Barnes' father,
Clarence A. Barnes
Clarence Alfred Barnes (August 28, 1882 – May 26, 1970) was an American politician who served as Attorney General of Massachusetts from 1945 to 1949.
Barnes political career began in Mansfield, Massachusetts, where he served as town counsel a ...
, was a politician and the attorney general of Massachusetts in the late 1940s.
[(19 January 2006)]
Fair price, good service, & plenty of laughs
, '' The Martha's Vineyard Times''
Bibliography
*''White Collar Zoo'' (July 1949)
[(12 December 1949)]
The Beast in Us
'' Time''[(21 August 1949)]
In and Out of Books
''The New York Times'' (stating though 100,000 copies had already sold in its first month of release)
*''Home Sweet Zoo'' (December 1949)
[1950 Britannica book of the year](_blank)
p. 116 (1950)[(4 December 1949)]
A Beastly Approach
''The New York Times''
*''Campus Zoo'' (1950)
[ Hackett, Alice Payne]
70 years of best sellers, 1895-1965
(1967)
*''Political Zoo'' (1952)
*''Sleeping Under Blankets'' (1955)
*''White Collar Zoo Revisited'' (1961)
*''The Secret of Cooking for Dogs'' (with Martin A. Gardner) (1964)
*''The Secret of Cooking for Cats'' (with Martin A. Gardner) (1965)
*''John F. Kennedy: Scrimshaw Collector'' (1969)
References
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1900s births
1992 deaths
American advertising executives
People from Manhattan
People from Edgartown, Massachusetts
Writers from Massachusetts
Yale University alumni