Paul Eldridge (May 5, 1888July 26, 1982) was an American poet, novelist, short story writer and teacher. The son of Leon and Jeanette Eldridge ( Lafleur), he was born in

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on May 5, 1888United States Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization. ''Ancestry.com'', Eldridge 'Declaration of Intention (15 August 1900)' and official 'Petition for Naturalization (6 May 1912)'

/ref> and immigrated with his family to the United States on August 15, 1900. He later married a fellow writer, Sylvette de Lamar (author of a 1932 novel ''Jews With the Cross''''Jews With the Cross'', Amazon book dust jacket image & listing, Amazon.com

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from

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in 1909, his A.M. from the

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in 1911,"Paul Eldridge," Class of 1911., ''General Alumni Catalogue of the University of Pennsylvania, 1917,'' ed. W.J. Maxwell, University of Pennsylvania Alumni Association, (page 470, column 2), books.google.com

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in 1913. He was a teacher of romance languages at the high school level in New York until his retirement in 1945.New York Times Obituary, July 29, 1982
/ref> He was a lecturer on American Literature at the Sorbonne in 1913 and at the University of Florence in 1923.Manning, Robert Douglas. ''The Jew: Screenplay'', Biographical Note on Eldridge

/ref> He later was an instructor of English literature at Saint John's College in Philadelphia, from 1910-1912, and was a member of the Authors' and Dramatists' League of the Authors' Guild of America. He is best known for collaborating with the American decadent novelist and poet

George Sylvester Viereck George Sylvester Viereck (December 31, 1884 – March 18, 1962) was a German-American poet, writer, and pro-German propagandist, latterly on behalf of the German Nazi government. Biography Early life Sylvester's father, Louis Viereck, was born ...

, who was imprisoned as a Nazi agent in the 1940s, on a trilogy of exotic fantasy novels from 1928 to 1932, ''My First Two Thousand Years: the Autobiography of the Wandering Jew'', ''Salome: the Wandering Jewess'' and ''the Invincible Adam''. A highly prolific author, many of his later books were published by E. Haldeman-Julius in his "Big Blue Books" series. He died at the age of 94 in a New York City nursing home on July 26, 1982.

Bibliography

*''Life Throbs'' (1911) *''Vanitas'' (1920) *''And the Sphinx Spoke'' (1921

*''Our Dead Selves: Anthology of the Lowly'' (1923) *''Irony and Pity: a Book of Tales'' (1926) *''The Intruder'' (1928) *''My First Two Thousand Years: the Autobiography of the Wandering Jew'' (With George Sylvester Viereck, 1928) *''Salome: the Wandering Jewess'' (With George Sylvester Viereck, 1930) *''Cobwebs and Cosmos'' (1930) *''The Invincible Adam'' (With George Sylvester Viereck, 1932) *''One Man Show'' (1933) *''Prince Pax'' (With George Sylvester Viereck, 1933) *''If After Every Tempest'' (1941) *''Madonna with the Cat: a Romantic Satire'' (1942) *''Horns of Glass'' (1943) *''He Who Loved His Neighbors and Other Stories'' (1945) *''I Bring a Sword'' (1945) *''Lanterns in the Night'' (1945) *''Lovers' Gifts and Other Stories'' (1945) *''The Last Supper of Marianne and Other Stories'' (1945) *''The Truth About Phyllis Warren and Other Stories'' (1945) *''Virgins and Other Stories'' (1945) *''Women Ain't No Fools and Other Stories'' (1945) *''Leaves From the Devil's Tree: A Smiling Cynic Looks at the Passing Show'' (1946) *''New York: This Whale of a City'' (1946) *''New York: The Empire State'' (1946) *''Two Lessons in Love: Master of hearts; Mr. Lowell and the Goddess'' (1946) *''A Lesson in Love'' (1946) *''Gamblers in Love and Other Stories'' (1946) *''Leaves from the Devil's Tree: a Smiling Cynic Looks at the Passing Show'' (1946) *''Men and Women: Stories of Love'' (1946) *''The Greatest Show on Earth: the Diary of a New York High School Teacher'' (1946) *''The Hudson: The River of Destiny'' 1946) *''The Jester's Holiday : a Divine Comedy'' (1946) *''The Way of Men with Maids and Other Stories'' (1946) *''Virtue, Beware! And Other Stories'' (1946) *''And Thou Shalt Teach Them'' (1947) *''Misadventure in Chastity: Antics and Romantics'' (1947) *''One Night: a Novel of Love in Nova Scotia'' (1947) *''The Whip and the Rose'' (1947) *''The Bed Remains: a Biography in Ten Chapters'' (1948) *''Blue Flames: Notes from the Diary of an Immoralist'' (1948) *''The Professor Goes Adventuring'' (1948) *''Moon Nets of the Master Spider'' (1948) *''Listen to Their Lust'' (1949) *''Curtain Call'' (1950) *''Flesh of the Flesh and Other Stories'' (1950) *''Maxims are Gadflies: The Wit and Wisdom of Paul Eldridge'' (1950) *''Anatole France: Master of Irony and Pity'' (1950) *''Erasmus: the Humanist'' (1950) *''Michel De Montaigne: Skeptic and Atheist'' (1950) *''The Kingdom Without God: Being the Last Will and Testament of Paul Eldridge'' (1951) *''Crown of Empire: The Story of New York State'' (1957) *''Tales of the Fortunate Isles'' (1959) *''Second Life of John Stevens'' (1960) *''Seven Against the Night'' (1960) *''The Tree of Ignorance'' (1962) *''Maxims for a Modern Man'' (1965) *''The Homecoming: a Chronicle of a Refugee Family'' (1966) *''The Parables of Old Cathay'' (1969) *''The Story-Tellers'' (1970) *''François Rabelais: the Great Story Teller'' (1971)

References

External links

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New York Times Obituary
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