John Williams Andrews (November 10, 1898 – March 18, 1975) was a

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professional,

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and author of

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. Andrews was born in Bryn Mawr,

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on November 10, 1898, to Evangeline Holcombe Walker and noted historian

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. During his journalistic career he worked for

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before joining the

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-based New Haven Journal-Courier. After

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and acceptance to the New York

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, he began practicing with the law firm Root, Clark Buckner & Ballentine before leaving to write ''History of the founding of Wolf's Head'', and then became involved in the publication of poetry journals. In 1936, he wrote ''Prelude to 'Icaros, designed as the introduction to an epic about Charles Lindbergh's

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. In 1940 he joined the

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as chief of the Federal-State Relations Section, and later as a trial attorney in the Antitrust Division. He was director of the Washington Institute of Mental Health in 1951, then joined the public relations firm

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before forming his own firm, Andrews Associaresm Inc., and retiring from the field in 1962. In 1963 he was co-recipient of the

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Poetry Award, and edited Literary Quarterly and Poet Lore.

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