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Bangs, John Kendrick

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Bangs, John Kendrick (1862–1922), lecturer, editor of Puck (1904–5) and other humorous magazines, whose writings were of great variety. He is best known for collections of extravagantly farcical tales, Tiddledywink Tales (1891), The Idiot (1895), Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica (1895), and A Houseboat on the Styx (1896). In the last he gathers together such diverse characters as Shakespeare, Delilah, Lucrezia Borgia, and Artemus Ward and lets his mind play freely with the absurd situations that ensue. It is illustrated by Peter Newell, of whom he wrote a biographical sketch. The Pursuit of the Houseboat (1897) is a sequel. With F. D. Sherman he wrote New Waggings of Old Tales (1888).

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John Kendrick Bangs

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John Kendrick Bangs 1862–1922, American humorist, b. Yonkers, N.Y., grad. Columbia, 1883. He was the editor of Puck (1904–5) and other magazines and wrote over 30 books of humorous stories, verse, and plays, including Three Weeks in Politics (1894), The Idiot (1895), and A Houseboat on the Styx (1896).

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