Peter De Vries
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Peter De Vries (February 27, 1910 - September 28, 1993) was an American editor and novelist known for his satiric wit.
De Vries was born in Chicago, Illinois of Dutch immigrant parents. He was educated in Dutch Christian Reformed Church schools, graduating from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1931. He supported himself with a number of different jobs, including those of vending machine operator, toffee-apple salesman, radio actor in the 1930s, and as an editor for Poetry magazine from 1938 to 1944. He joined the staff of The New Yorker magazine at the insistence of James Thurber and worked there from 1944 to 1987, writing stories and touching up cartoon captions. He had four children with wife Katinka Loeser; Jon, Derek, Jan, and Emily, who died at the age of 10 of leukemia. This experience provided the inspiration for his 1961 work, The Blood of the Lamb. De Vries received an honorary degree in 1979 from Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA. He died September 28, 1993 in Norwalk, Connecticut.
[edit] Selected works
- 1940 But Who Wakes the Bugler?
- 1943 The Handsome Heart
- 1944 Angels Can't Do Better
- 1953 Vale of laughter
- 1954 Tunnel of Love
- 1956 Comfort Me with Apples
- 1958 The Mackerel Plaza
- 1959 The Tents of Wickedness
- 1961 The Blood of the Lamb
- 1964 Reuben, Reuben
- 1971 Into Your Tent I'll Creep
- 1972 Without A Stitch In Time
- 1973 Forever Panting
- 19?? The Glory Of The Hummingbird
- 1976 I Hear America Swinging
- 1978 Madder Music
- 1980 Consenting Adults; or, The Duchess Will Be Furious
- 1981 Sauce for the Goose
- 1983 Slouching Towards Kalamazoo
- 1986 Peckham's Marbles
