Norman Hapgood (March 28, 1868 – April 29, 1937) was an American writer, journalist, editor, and critic, and an American Minister to Denmark.
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Biography
Norman Hapgood was born March 28, 1868 in Chicago, Illinois
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to Charles Hutchins Hapgood (1836–1917) and Fanny Louise (Powers) Hapgood (1846–1922). He is the older brother of the journalist and author Hutchins Hapgood
Hutchins Harry Hapgood (1869–1944) was an American journalist, author and anarchist.
Life and career
Hapgood was born to Charles Hutchins Hapgood (1836–1917) and Fanny Louise (Powers) Hapgood (1846–1922) and grew up in Alton, Illinois, ...
. He graduated from Harvard University
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in 1890 and from the law school there in 1893, then chose to become a writer. Hapgood
worked as the drama critic of the New York City ''Commercial Advertiser'' and of the ''Bookman'' in 1897–1902. He was named the editor of ''Collier's Weekly
''Collier's'' was an American general interest magazine founded in 1888 by Peter Fenelon Collier. It was launched as ''Collier's Once a Week'', then renamed in 1895 as ''Collier's Weekly: An Illustrated Journal'', shortened in 1905 to ''Colli ...
'' in 1903 and remained at that post for about a decade, before leaving to become editor of ''Harper's Weekly
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'' in June 1913. His editorial style attracted much attention for its vigor and range.
He inspired T. G. Masaryk to write the first memorandum to president Wilson for independence of Czechoslovakia from London
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to Washington
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in January 1917.
During the latter part of World War I
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and into the early post-war period Hapgood served as president of the League of Free Nations Association, which advocated in favor of a League of Nations
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to adjudicate international disputes. In this capacity Hapgood helped advance the agenda of President Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856February 3, 1924) was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. A member of the Democratic Party, Wilson served as the president of ...
, who sought the establishment of such a body at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919
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.
In 1919 President Wilson appointed Hapgood Minister to Denmark, in which post he served for about six months. He helped expose Henry Ford
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's antisemitism
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Antis ...
in his article, "The Inside Story of Henry Ford's Jew-Mania", Part 4, ''Hearst's International'' (September 1922).
In 1922, the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) and the manufacturer's association representing cloak makers chose Norman Hapgood to chair a Wage Commission for workers in the industry (Lorwin, 351 - 352).
Hapgood was married twice. His first wife, Emilie Bigelow Hapgood Emilie Bigelow Hapgood (1868 in Chicago[Schenectady Gazette
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"Mrs. Emilie Bigelow Hapgood Dies in Rome" (obituary)
accessed April 25, 2015. Elizabeth Hapgood, who spoke fluent Russian, was the first English-language translator of writings about acting by
Konstantin Stanislavsky
Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavski ( Alekseyev; russian: Константин Сергеевич Станиславский, p=kənstɐnʲˈtʲin sʲɪrˈgʲejɪvʲɪtɕ stənʲɪˈslafskʲɪj; 7 August 1938) was a seminal Soviet Russian ...
(it was Norman Hapgood who had first suggested, in 1914, that the
Moscow Art Theatre be invited to America
).
Norman Hapgood died on April 29, 1937 following
prostate
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surgery at
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.
He was buried in
Green-Wood Cemetery
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,
Brooklyn
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, New York.
Works
* (1897). ''Literary Statesmen and Others Essays on Men Seen from a Distance''
eissued by Books for Libraries Press, 1972
* (1899). ''Abraham Lincoln: The Man of the People''.
* (1899). ''Daniel Webster''.
* (1901). ''George Washington''.
* (1901). ''The Stage in America, 1897–1900''.
* (1911). ''Industry and Progress''.
* (1919). ''The Jewish Commonwealth''.
* (1920). ''The Advancing Hour''.
* (1927). ''Professional Patriots'' (with Sidney Howard, and John Hearley).
* (1927). ''Up From the City Streets: A Biographical Study of Alfred E. Smith'' (with
Henry Moskowitz).
* (1929). ''Why Janet Should Read Shakspere'' (''sic'').
* (1930). ''The Changing Years''.
Louis Lorwin, The Womens Garment Makers (pgs. 351 - 352).
References
External links
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The Political Graveyard: Norman HapgoodNorman Hapgood's grave in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New YorkNorman Hapgood and Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood PapersRepository: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Photogravure of Hapgoodby
Doris Ulmann
Doris Ulmann (May 29, 1882 – August 28, 1934) was an American photographer, best known for her portraits of the people of Appalachia, particularly craftsmen and musicians, made between 1928 and 1934.
Life and career
Doris Ulmann was a na ...
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