Background
New, Clarence Herbert was born on November 14, 1862 in New York City. Son of Tobias and Lizzie A. (Parmelee) New.
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Clarence Herbert New
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Educated Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn, 1868-1872, Betts Military Academy, Stamford, Connecticut, 1876, Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, 1877-1880.
Career
Traveled twice around the world, 1880-1881, and 1891, visiting nearly every country. Through South. America, 1884. Shipwrecked on clipper ship “Eric the Red,” September 5, 1880, on coast of Victoria, Australia.
Foreign correspondent, 1884, 1891.
Constructing engineer, 1886-1892. Editor, writer public, since 1893.
Editor Truth, 1895. Manager New York and London Literary Press, 1897-1910.
Editor Reel Life, 1913-1914. Author: Adventures of a Diplomatic Free Lance (series), 1909-1931—the longest continuous series with same leading characters ever published—nearly 3 million words—also produced in motion pictures, and some of the stories republished in Cassell’s New Magazine, London.
Mysteries of the Sea (republished in Premier Magazine, London, series over the pen-name “Culpeper Zandtt”), 1911-1912, 1914-1918. The Unseen Hand (war novel), 1918.
Deep Water Men and the Glowing Ember (series in Blue Book Magazine and Premier Magazine, London), 1920-1921.
The Peculiar Resources of Pennington White (series), 1924. The Grigsbys (series in magazines), 1925. “Galt, Doctor of Medicine” (East Indian series, by Culpeper Zandtt), 1926-1927.
Buccaneers Limited (series, by “Stephen Hopkins Orcutt”), 1927-1928.
Mysteries of Today (series), by Culpeper Zandtt, 1928-1929. Deep Water Life (series), by Stephen Hopkins Orcutt, 1929.
Address: New York, New New York
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Married Rachel Tatum, November 10, 1891.
