{{Short description|American banker, soldier, singer, diplomat and author}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}} {{Infobox person | name = Paul Hyde Bonner | image = Paul_Hyde_Bonner.png | birth_date = {{Birth date|1893|02|14}} | birth_place = New York City, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|1968|12|14|1893|2|14}} | death_place = [[Charleston, South Carolina]], U.S. | education = [[Phillips Exeter Academy]] | alma_mater = [[Harvard University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|AB]]) | occupation = Banker, diplomat, singer, soldier and author | spouse = {{plainlist| * {{Marriage|Lilly Marguerite Stehli|1917|1962|end=died}} * {{marriage|Elizabeth McGowan<br />|1963}} }} | children = 4, including [[John Tyler Bonner|John]] }}
'''Paul Hyde Bonner''' (February 14, 1893 – December 14, 1968) was an American banker, soldier, singer, diplomat, and author.<ref name="The Atlantic">{{cite web |title=Paul Hyde Bonner |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/author/paul-hyde-bonner/ |website=The Atlantic |access-date=September 18, 2022}}</ref> He is a member of the [[Stehli family]] by marriage to Lilly Marguerite Stehli, a daughter of Emil Stehli-Zweifel, then the head of [[Stehli Silks|Stehli Silks Corporation]] in [[New York (state)|New York]].
== Early life == Bonner was born on February 14, 1893, in [[Brooklyn|Brooklyn, New York]] to Paul Edward and Theodora (née Hyde) Bonner.<ref>Census Records, 1900, 1910</ref> In 1911, he graduated from [[Phillips Exeter Academy]], before graduating from [[Harvard University]] in 1915.{{citation needed|date=April 2023}}
== Career == In February 1934, Bonner's collection of first editions was auctioned off by the [[American Art Association]] and [[Anderson Galleries]] on [[57th Street (Manhattan)|East 57th Street]], New York City.<ref name="Kelmscott2">{{cite web |title=Collection of Paul Hyde Bonner of New York |url=https://www.kelmscottbookshop.com/pages/books/20545/unknown/collection-of-paul-hyde-bonner-of-new-york |access-date=September 18, 2022 |website=The Kelmscott Bookshop}}</ref>
In April 1936, his feature ''We Live in the Country'' was published in ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]''.<ref name="Vogue2">{{cite news |last1=Bonner |first1=Paul Hyde |date=April 15, 1936 |title=We Live in the Country |work=Vogue |url=https://archive.vogue.com/article/1936/04/15/we-live-in-the-country |access-date=September 18, 2022}}</ref> In October 1936, a "semi-fiction" article of his, ''Stalker & Co.,'' was published in ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]'', illustrated by [[Gilbert Bundy]].<ref name="Esquire2">{{cite news |last1=Bonner |first1=Paul Hyde |date=October 1, 1936 |title=Stalker & Co. |work=Esquire |url=https://classic.esquire.com/article/1936/10/1/stalker-co |access-date=September 18, 2022}}</ref>
Bonner did not start writing books until his late 50s.<ref name="The Atlantic2">{{cite web |title=Paul Hyde Bonner |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/author/paul-hyde-bonner/ |access-date=September 18, 2022 |website=The Atlantic}}</ref> His first novel, ''SPQR,'' was published in 1952.<ref name="The Atlantic2"/> He published two collections of stories about the outdoor life: in 1954, ''The Glorious Mornings, Stories of Shooting and Fishing'', and in 1958, ''Aged in the Woods''.<ref name="The Atlantic2"/>
== Personal life == In 1917, Bonner married Lilly Marguerite Stehli, a daughter of Emil and Marguerite (née Zweifel) Stehli in New York City.<ref>{{Cite news |date=March 28, 1917 |title=PLANS FOR TWO WEDDINGS.; Attendants for the Misses Lily Stehli and Hazel Y. Bliss. |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1917/03/28/archives/plans-for-two-weddings-attendants-for-the-misses-lily-stehli-and.html |access-date=April 29, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> His father-in-law was the head of [[Stehli Silks]] in the US. They had four children;
* Paul Hyde Bonner Jr. (May 12, 1918 - May 27, 1989), captain in the [[United States Air Force]], married to Louisa B. Thorn * [[John Tyler Bonner]] (May 12, 1920 - February 7, 2019)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Microbiologist John Bonner, leading expert on cellular slime molds, dies at 98 |url=https://www.princeton.edu/news/2019/02/15/microbiologist-john-bonner-leading-expert-cellular-slime-molds-dies-98 |access-date=April 29, 2023 |website=Princeton University |language=en}}</ref> * Henry Stehli Bonner (1923 - December 7, 2014)<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 31, 2014 |title=Henry Stehli Bonner |url=https://lcnme.com/obituaries/henry-stehli-bonner/ |access-date=April 29, 2023 |website=The Lincoln County News |language=en-US}}</ref>
His wife's death was reported in the ''[[New York Times]]'' on January 2, 1962.<ref name="New York Times">{{cite news |date=January 2, 1962 |title=MRS. PAUL HYDE BONNER; Wife of Author and Former Diplomat Dies at 63 |work=New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1962/01/02/archives/mrs-paul-hyde-bonner-wife-of-author-and-former-diplomat-dies-at-63.html |access-date=September 18, 2022}}</ref>
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