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Burton J. Hendrick

American author and editor (1870-1949) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 78

Burton Jesse Hendrick, born in New Haven, Connecticut, was an American author. While attending Yale University, Hendrick was editor of both The Yale Courant and The Yale Literary Magazine. He received his BA in 1895 and his master's in 1897 from Yale.

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1949Died23 March 19491929Pulitzer Prize for BiographyAward1923Pulitzer Prize for BiographyAward1921Pulitzer Prize for HistoryAward1870Born8 December 1870

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Pulitzer Prize for Biography1929
Pulitzer Prize for Biography1923
Pulitzer Prize for History1921

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After completing his degree work, Hendrick became editor of the New Haven Morning News. In 1905, after writing for The New York Evening Post and The New York Sun, Hendrick left newspapers and became a "muckraker" writing for McClure's Magazine. His "The Story of Life-Insurance" exposé appeared in McClure's in 1906. Following his career at McClure's, Hendrick went to work in 1913 at Walter Hines Page's World's Work magazine as an associate editor. In 1919, Hendrick began writing biographies, when he was the ghostwriter of Ambassador Morgenthau's Story for Henry Morgenthau, Sr.

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United States
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1870 to 1949 · aged 78