Edward Alden Jewell

Background

Jewell, Edward Alden was born on March 10, 1888 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. Son of Frank and Jennie Agnes (Osterhout) Jewell.

Education

Education high school, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Friends’ School, Washington, District of Columbia.

Career

Lansing. Reporter, Grand Rapids Herald, 1911-1914. Secretary to Senator William Alden Smith, Washington, 1914-1915. With New York Tribune, 1915.

Managing editor World Court Magazine, 1916. Associate editor Everybody’s Magazine, 1916-1917. Sunday editor New York Tribune, 1917-1919, before and following military service.

Commissioned in Chemical Warfare Service, and trained at Camp Humphreys, Virginia, and Camp Kendrick, Lakehurst, New Jersey. Honorary discharge as Second lieutenant, December 1918. Associate editor Success Magazine, 1923.

Author: The Charmed Circle, 1921. The White Kami, 1922. The Moth Decides, 1922.

Americans (Modern Art Series), 1930. Have We An American Art?, 1939. French Impressionists and Their Contemporaries, 1944.

Cezanne 1944; Rouault, 1945. Van Gogh, 1946. Art editor and critic, New York Times. Home: 404 E. 55th St.

New York City 22.

Connections

Married Manette Lansing Carpenter, April.

Father:

Frank Jewell

Mother:

Jennie Agnes (Osterhout) Jewell

Spouse:

Manette Lansing Carpenter