Henry Cuyler Bunner

Background

Bunner, Henry Cuyler was born on August 3, 1855 in Oswego, New York, United States. Son of Rudolph and Ruth (Tuckerman) Bunner.

Career

From being a clerk in an importing house, Henry Cuyler Bunner turned to journalism, and after some work as a reporter, and on the staff of The Arcadian (1873), he became in 1877 assistant editor of the comic weekly Puck. He soon assumed the editorship, which he held until his death in Nutley, New Jersey. He developed Puck from a new struggling periodical into a powerful social and political organization

In 1886 Henry Cuyler Bunner published a novel, The Midge, followed in 1887 by The Story of a New York House.

But his best efforts in fiction were his short stories and sketches Short Sixes (1891), More Short Sixes (1894), Made in France (1893), Zadoc Pine and Other Stories (1891), Love in Old Cloathes and Other Stories (1896), and Jersey Street and Jersey Lane (1896). His verses Airs from A ready and Elsewhere (1884), containing the well-known poem, The Way to Arcady.

Rowen (1892). And Poems (1896), edited by his friend Brander Matthews, displaying a light play of imagination and a delicate workmanship.

He also wrote clever vers de société and parodies. One of his several plays (usually written in collaboration), was The Tower of Babel (1883).

His short story "Zenobia"s Infidelity" was made into a feature film called Zenobia starring Harry Langdon and Oliver Hardy by the Hal Roach Studio in 1939.

Achievements

• Henry Cuyler Bunner developed Puck from a new struggling periodical into a powerful social and political organ.

Works

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  • Jersey Street and Jersey Lane: Urban and Suburban Sketches

    (Jersey Street and Jersey Lane)

  • The Poems of H.C. Bunner
  • The Story of a New York House

Connections

Henry Cuyler Bunner was married to Alice Learned. They had three children.

Father:

Rudolph Bunner, Jr.

mother

Grandfather:

Rudolph Bunner

grandmother

Wife:

Alice Learned

Son:

Rudolph Bunner

daughter