Paul Eldridge

'''Paul Eldridge''' (May 5, 1888{{spaced ndash}}July 26, 1982<ref>His [https://www.nytimes.com/1982/07/29/obituaries/paul-eldridge.html New York Times obituary], published July 29, 1982, states that he "died Monday" as [http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=july+29%2C+1982 July 29th was a Thursday] his ''death occurred on Monday, July 26, 1982''.</ref>) was an American poet, novelist, short story writer and teacher.

The son of Leon and Jeanette Eldridge ({{née}} Lafleur), he was born in Bucharest, Romania, on May 5, 1888<ref name="Pennsylvania, Federal Naturalization Records, 1795-1931 for Paul Eldridge">United States Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization. ''Ancestry.com'', Eldridge 'Declaration of Intention (15 August 1900)' and official 'Petition for Naturalization (6 May 1912)'. [https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2717/31311_137394-00304?pid=165181&treeid=&personid=&rc=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=il1-213444&_phstart=successSource]</ref> and immigrated with his family to the United States on August 15, 1900.<ref name="Pennsylvania, Federal Naturalization Records, 1795-1931 for Paul Eldridge"/> He later married a fellow writer, Sylvette de Lamar (author of a 1932 novel ''Jews With the Cross''<ref name="Jews With the Cross">''Jews With the Cross'', Amazon book dust jacket image & listing, Amazon.com. [https://www.amazon.com/Jews-Cross-Sylvette-Lamar/dp/B0016A8DGG]</ref>). He received his B.S. from Temple University in 1909, his A.M. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1911,<ref name="Paul Eldridge">"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. [https://books.google.com/books?id=xYttvbIxHcMC&dq=paul+eldridge+%2B+Temple+University&pg=PA470]</ref> and a doctorate from the University of Paris in 1913. He was a teacher of romance languages at the high school level in New York until his retirement in 1945.<ref name="NYT Obituary">[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D05EED91239F93AA15754C0A964948260 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.<ref name="Screenplay">Manning, Robert Douglas. ''The Jew: Screenplay'', Biographical Note on Eldridge. [https://books.google.com/books?id=amz-YpTWbbEC&pg=PT20]</ref> He later was an instructor of English literature at Saint John's College in Philadelphia, from 1910 to 1912, and was a member of the Authors' and Dramatists' League of the Authors' Guild of America.<ref name="Screenplay"/>

He is best known for collaborating with the American decadent novelist and poet George Sylvester Viereck, who was imprisoned as a Nazi agent in the 1940s,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/speccoll/2010/11/18/george-viereck-diplomat-or-propagandist/|title=University Libraries | the University of Iowa|date=18 November 2010 }}</ref> 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.<ref name="NYT Obituary"/>

==Bibliography== *''Life Throbs'' (1911) *''Vanitas'' (1920) *''And the Sphinx Spoke'' (1921) [https://books.google.com/books?id=vicgAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1] *''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== {{reflist}}

==External links== {{wikiquote}} *{{Librivox author |id=13232}} *[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D05EED91239F93AA15754C0A964948260 New York Times Obituary]

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