Background
Smyth, Clifford was born on November 13, 1866 in New York City. Son of Joseph Kennedy and Julia Gabriella (Ogden) Smyth.
Smyth, Clifford was born on November 13, 1866 in New York City. Son of Joseph Kennedy and Julia Gabriella (Ogden) Smyth.
Urbana (Ohio) University, 1885-1887. New Church Theological School, Boston, 1888-1889.
Julian Hawthorne, of New York City, August 2, 1905. Children-Julian Clifford, Hawthorne Lewis, Sylvia Hawthorne. Began writing for New York papers, 1889.
Editor Yonkers (New York) Daily Herald, 1890-1894.
American consul at Cartagena, Colombia, 1894-1898. Tramp trip, New York to Atlanta, principally in Kentucky and West. Virginia mountains, writing for magazines and newspapers.
On Atlanta Constitution until 1903. Sent by syndicate of Southern papers to Bogota, Colombia, to report on Panama trouble, 1903.
Sent to Panama, by Democratic National Committee, presidential campaign, 1904.
With New York Times Sunday Magazine, 1905-1913. Editor New York Times Book Review, February 1913-November 1922. Editor Literary Digest International Book Review, November 1922-November 1926.
Literature adviser Funk & Wagnalls corporation since November 1926.
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Married Beatrix, daughter; children-Julian Clifford, Hawthorne Lewis, Sylvia Hawthorne.