Background
Devoe, Alan was born on October 13, 1909 in Montclair, New Jersey, United States. Son of William Beck and Edith Guy (Taylor) Devoe.
Devoe, Alan was born on October 13, 1909 in Montclair, New Jersey, United States. Son of William Beck and Edith Guy (Taylor) Devoe.
Student Montclair High School, 1923-1927, Columbia University, 1927-1930.
Author monthly department, “Down to Earth,” American Mercury, since 1937. Associate editor The Writer. Contributing editor Audubon Magazine, American Mercury.
Special contributor, editorial consultant natural history Reader’s Digest.
Sponsor, Defenders of Furbearers, Washington. Author: Phudd Hill, 1937.
Down to Earth, 1940. Lives Around Us, 1942.
Mind in Nature (monograph), 1946. Speaking of Animals, 1947.
This Fascinating Animal World, 1951. Our Animal Neighbors (with Mary Berry Devoe), 1953.
Contributor to Atlantic Monthly, Country Gentleman, The Land, Nature Magazine, et cetera
Lecturer radio and television Home: Phudd Hill, Hillsdale, New York:.
Married Mary Sheridan Berry, June 14, 1932.